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US 9,432,515 B2Granted
Messaging translation services
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorLarry Woodring
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Abstract
One embodiment of a method for translating a message can be broadly summarized by the following steps: generating an electronic message in an understood language of an originating party; receiving instructions to translate contents of the electronic message to another language; converting the electronic message to the another language in accordance with the instructions; and delivering the converted electronic message to the receiving party. Other methods and devices are also provided.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- receiving a voice message intended as a personal message from a sender for a recipient user, the voice message being in a first language;
- determining that a preferred spoken language of the recipient user differs from the first language to yield a determination;
- based on the determination, presenting to the recipient user the voice message in the first language with an option to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- receiving, from the recipient user, an interaction with the option to yield an instruction to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- based on the instruction, translating, via a processor and based on a retrieval code provided by the recipient user, the voice message into the preferred spoken language, to yield a translated voice message;
- providing the translated voice message to the recipient user;
- receiving a reply message from the recipient user;
- and
- generating, via the processor, a reply to the voice message by translating the reply message into the first language.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing:
- receiving a voice message intended as a personal message from a sender for a recipient user, the voice message being in a first language;
- determining that a preferred spoken language of the recipient user differs from the first language to yield a determination;
- based on the determination, presenting to the recipient user the voice message in the first language with an option to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- receiving, from the recipient user, an interaction with the option to yield an instruction to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- based on the instruction, translating, via a processor and based on a retrieval code provided by the recipient user, the voice message into the preferred spoken language, to yield a translated voice message;
- providing the translated voice message to the recipient user;
- receiving a reply message from the recipient user;
- and
- generating, via the processor, a reply to the voice message by translating the reply message into the first language.
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A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in operations comprising:
- receiving a voice message intended as a personal message from a sender for a recipient user, the voice message being in a first language;
- determining that a preferred spoken language of the recipient user differs from the first language to yield a determination;
- based on the determination, presenting to the recipient user the voice message in the first language with an option to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- receiving, from the recipient user, an interaction with the option to yield an instruction to translate the voice message into the preferred spoken language;
- based on the instruction, translating, via a processor and based on a retrieval code provided by the recipient user, the voice message into the preferred spoken language, to yield a translated voice message;
- providing the translated voice message to the recipient user;
- receiving a reply message from the recipient user;
- and
- generating, via the processor, a reply to the voice message by translating the reply message in the first language.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.