System and method for answering a communication notification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9525767-B2
Application number	US-201615058355-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2016
Priority date	Apr 14, 2008
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for answering a communication notification. The method for answering a communication notification comprises receiving a notification of communication from a user, converting information related to the notification to speech, outputting the information as speech to the user, and receiving from the user an instruction to accept or ignore the incoming communication associated with the notification. In one embodiment, information related to the notification comprises one or more of a telephone number, an area code, a geographic origin of the request, caller id, a voice message, address book information, a text message, an email, a subject line, an importance level, a photograph, a video clip, metadata, an IP address, or a domain name. Another embodiment involves notification assigned an importance level and repeat attempts at notification if it is of high importance.

First claim

I claim:

1. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
modifying a threshold to generate a modified threshold;
determining an importance level of an incoming communication associated with an entity; and
responsive to the importance level indicating that the incoming communication associated with the entity satisfies a requisite importance according to the modified threshold, presenting synthesized speech based on a notification that is associated with the incoming communication.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the modifying of the threshold is based on a current user activity.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the modifying of the threshold is according to a caller identity.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification presents a first option to accept the incoming communication and a second option to ignore the incoming communication.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the presenting of the synthesized speech occurs by transmitting the synthesized speech to an integrated device.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the integrated device is a hands-free device.

7. A method comprising:
determining, via a system including processor, an importance level of an incoming communication associated with an entity; and
responsive to the importance level indicating that the incoming communication associated with the entity satisfies a requisite importance according to a threshold, presenting synthesized speech based on a notification that is associated with the incoming communication.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the determining of the importance level comprises accessing an address book.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising modifying the threshold according to a caller identity.

10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising modifying the threshold based on a current user activity.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the notification presents an option for processing the incoming communication.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the option includes accepting the incoming communication and ignoring the incoming communication.

13. The method of claim 7 , wherein the presenting of the synthesized speech occurs by transmitting the synthesized speech to an integrated device.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the integrated device is a hands-free device.

15. The method of claim 7 , wherein the importance level is determined based on one of a telephone number, an area code, a geographic origin of the incoming communication, a caller identification, a voice message, a text message, an email, a subject line, a photograph, a video clip, metadata, an Internet Protocol address, a domain name, or a combination thereof.

16. The method of claim 7 , wherein the requisite importance is satisfied responsive to the importance level being above the threshold.

17. The method of claim 7 , wherein the requisite importance is satisfied responsive to the importance level being below the threshold.

18. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in operations comprising:
accessing information stored in conjunction with an address book;
determining an importance level of an incoming communication associated with an entity according to the information; and
responsive to the importance level indicating that the incoming communication associated with the entity satisfies a requisite importance according to a threshold, presenting synthesized speech based on a notification that is associated with the incoming communication.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise modifying the threshold based on a current user activity.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18 , wherein the notification presents a first option to accept the incoming communication and a second option to ignore the incoming communication.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp
• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Schroeter Horst J

Classifications

• G10L13/043

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L15/265

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L15/26

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04M1/6033

  for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets (arrangements for preventing acoustic echo H04M9/08) · CPC title

• H04M1/578 Primary

  associated with a synthesized vocal announcement · CPC title