Methods and systems for providing near real time messaging to hearing impaired user during telephone calls
AssigneeMobile Captions Company LLC
InventorsAdam Gould, Won-Sik Kim, Jonathan Masters
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Abstract
A data connection between a server and an application running on a mobile telephone handset is used to provide caption text of a telephonic conversation between call participants to the mobile phone handset during an active telephone call. Prior to providing the captions, a communication session between the server and the application running on the handset, the means of transporting the caption text is determined. Transport may be by way of data socket connection or by way of SMS messages.
Claims12
A method of conducting a text relay session between a relay service server and a relay application server, the method comprising establishing a data connection between the relay service server and the relay application server listening at a preconfigured port;
- sending a relay initiation request from the relay service server to the relay application server, said relay initiation request including a telephone number of a called party;
- upon receiving a relay initiation response from the relay application server, the relay service server sending caption texts;
- at the end of a telephone conversation, the relay application server sending a relay termination request to the relay application server;
- and, upon receipt of a relay termination response from the relay application server, the relay service server closing the data connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.