Mechanism to transmit text messages using ring time

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9780968-B2
Application number	US-201715450203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2017
Priority date	Jan 4, 2016
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

A sender telephone receives a text message to send to a receiver telephone. The sender telephone determines the transmission delay time by sending a predetermined message to receiver telephone, based on the time it receives an address complete message and a release message. The sender telephone determines a constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time and in response to the determining the constant value, ringing the receiver telephone to transmit the received inputted text message. A receiver telephone receives a predetermined message from a caller telephone to determine a transmission delay time, based on the time it receives the address complete message and a release message. The receiver telephone determines a constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time. The receiver telephone receives incoming rings from the caller telephone and converts the received rings into a text message to be displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for transmitting and receiving a text message, the method comprising:
the method for transmitting a text message at a caller telephone comprising:
receiving, by the caller telephone, an inputted text message;
transmitting, by the caller telephone, a predetermined message to a receiver telephone to determine a transmission delay time, based on a time the caller telephone receives an address complete message and a release message;
determining, by the caller telephone, a constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time; and
in response to the determining the constant value, ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone to transmit the received inputted text message;

the method for receiving the inputted text message at the receiver telephone comprising:
receiving, by the receiver telephone, the predetermined message from the caller telephone to determine the transmission delay time, based on a time the receiver telephone receives the address complete message and the release message;
determining, by the receiver telephone, the constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time;
receiving, the receiver telephone, an incoming ring from the caller telephone and converting the received ring into a text message, wherein the text message is the inputted message; and
displaying, by the receiver telephone, the text message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the text message comprises:
determining, by the caller telephone, if the received inputted text message is a predetermined message, an original message or a hybrid message that includes a predetermined message and an original message.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the received inputted message is determined to be a predetermined message, the method further comprise:
determining, by the caller telephone, a multiple factor that corresponds to the predetermined message;
determining, by the caller telephone a ring time based on the constant value being multiplied by the multiple factor; and
ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone one time equal to a length of time based on the determined ring time.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the received inputted message is determined to be an original message, the method further comprise:
transforming, by the caller telephone, the received inputted message into a message composed of dots and/or dashes to form a transmission string;
breaking up, by the caller telephone, the transmission string into ring groups, such that each ring group is determined by the number of times the receiver telephone would ring; and
wherein the number of rings that form the ring group determine if and how many dots or dashes are transmitted.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the number of rings that form the ring group determine if and how many dots or dashes are transmitted, further comprises:
wherein when the ring group comprises an even number of rings then a dot is being transmitted, wherein the number of dots that are transmitted is determined by the number of rings that form the ring group; and
wherein when the ring group comprises an odd number of rings then a dash is being transmitted, wherein the number of dashes that are transmitted is determined by the number of rings that form the ring group.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the breaking up the transmission string into ring groups, further comprises:
determining, by the caller telephone, a waiting period between ring groups that is below a threshold value to indicate a start of a new ring group to the receiving telephone; and
determining, by the caller telephone, a waiting period between ring groups that is above a threshold value to indicate a space to the receiver.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone to transmit the received inputted text message, further comprises;
ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone number of times to transmit the determined ring groups and spaces that form the transmission string.

8. The method of claim 2 , wherein the received inputted message is determined to be a hybrid message, the method comprise:
determining, by the caller telephone, which words of the hybrid message are a predetermined message and which words are an original message.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the words of the hybrid message determined to be a predetermined message, the method comprise:
determining, by the caller telephone, a multiple factor that corresponds to the predetermined message; and
determining, by the caller telephone, a ring time based on the constant value being multiplied by the multiple factor.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the words of the hybrid message determined to be an original message, the method comprise:
transforming, by the caller telephone, the original message into a message composed of dots and/or dashes to form a transmission string.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the transforming, by the caller telephone, the received inputted message into a message composed of dots and/or dashes, further comprises:
breaking up, by the caller telephone, the transmission string into ring groups, such that each ring group is determined by the number of times the receiver telephone would rings;
wherein the number of rings that form the ring group determine if and how many dots or dashes are transmitted.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the number of rings that form the ring group determine if and how many dots or dashes are transmitted, further comprises:
wherein when the ring group comprises an even number of rings then a dot is being transmitted, wherein the number of dots that are transmitted is determined by the number of rings that form the ring group; and
wherein when the ring group comprises an odd number of rings then a dash is being transmitted, wherein the number of dashes that are transmitted is determined by the number of rings that form the ring group.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the breaking up the transmission string into ring groups, further comprises:
determining, by the caller telephone, a waiting period between ring groups that is below a threshold value to indicate a start of a new ring group to the receiving telephone; and
determining, by the caller telephone, a waiting period between ring groups that is above a threshold value to indicate a space to the receiver.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone to transmit the received inputted text message, further comprises;
ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone one time equal to a length of time based on the determined ring time to transmit the predetermined message; and
ringing, by the caller telephone, the receiver telephone number of times to transmit the determined ring groups and spaces that form the transmission string.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method for receiving the text message comprises:
determining, by the receiver telephone, if the received rings from a caller telephone is transmitting a predetermined message, an original message or a hybrid message that includes a predetermined message and an original message.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the incoming rings was determined to be a receiving a predetermined message, the method further comprise:
determining, by the receiver telephone, a ring time length for the incoming ring and dividing the ring time by the constant value to determine a multiple factor; and
determining, by

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bonanni Cristina
• Donatelli Alessandro
• Manganelli Patrizia
• Piccinini Sandro

Classifications

• H04M2203/2066

  Call type detection of indication, e.g. voice or fax, mobile of fixed, PSTN or IP · CPC title

• H04L15/04 Primary

  Apparatus or circuits at the transmitting end · CPC title

• H04M2203/652

  Call initiation triggered by text message · CPC title

• H04M3/02

  Calling substations, e.g. by ringing (selective calling H04Q) · CPC title

• H04L15/34

  Apparatus for recording received coded signals after translation, e.g. as type-characters · CPC title