CA2281147A1 - Method and apparatus for relaying communication - Google Patents

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CA2281147A1
CA2281147A1 CA 2281147 CA2281147A CA2281147A1 CA 2281147 A1 CA2281147 A1 CA 2281147A1 CA 2281147 CA2281147 CA 2281147 CA 2281147 A CA2281147 A CA 2281147A CA 2281147 A1 CA2281147 A1 CA 2281147A1
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Jac P. Dowens
Amy J. Rupert
Blake Lane Wattenbarger
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AT&T Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
    • H04M3/56—Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities
    • H04M3/567—Multimedia conference systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L12/00—Data switching networks
    • H04L12/66—Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
    • H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
    • H04M3/53—Centralised arrangements for recording incoming messages, i.e. mailbox systems
    • H04M3/5307—Centralised arrangements for recording incoming messages, i.e. mailbox systems for recording messages comprising any combination of audio and non-audio components
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2201/00—Electronic components, circuits, software, systems or apparatus used in telephone systems
    • H04M2201/60—Medium conversion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2203/00—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M2203/15—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges related to dial plan and call routing
    • H04M2203/158—Call-type dependent routing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2203/00—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M2203/45—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges related to voicemail messaging
    • H04M2203/4527—Voicemail attached to other kind of message
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2203/00—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M2203/50—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges related to audio conference
    • H04M2203/5063—Centrally initiated conference, i.e. Conference server dials participants

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Abstract

The invention provides a telecommunication relay device that relays communication from a first party to at least one second party. The first party and the second party may use terminals of different types such as telephone stations, text telephones, two-way pagers, personal digital assistants with communication capabilities, data network terminals, etc. The telecommunication relay device converts text received from text terminals into voice for voice terminals and converts voice to text and vice versa. The telecommunication relay device also permits the first party to leave messages for other parties. For example, the first party may send an e-mail message using a telephone station or receive an e-mail using a telephone station. In addition, the telecommunication relay device may open a private chat room to allow communication between data network terminals and telephone stations, for example. The telecommunication relay device may also provide conferencing capability where the conferees may use different type terminals.
CA 2281147 1999-08-26 1999-08-26 Method and apparatus for relaying communication Expired - Fee Related CA2281147C (en)

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Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2003030505A2 (en) * 2001-10-01 2003-04-10 Inventions, Inc. Method of contacting a party using multiple media
WO2003030450A2 (en) * 2001-09-27 2003-04-10 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Method for providing communication information of a communication unit and devices for carrying out said method
WO2005013596A1 (en) * 2003-07-24 2005-02-10 International Business Machines Corporation Chat and teleconferencing system with text to speech and speech to text translation
GB2443461A (en) * 2006-11-02 2008-05-07 George Rath Mobile phone
US8027839B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2011-09-27 Nuance Communications, Inc. Using an automated speech application environment to automatically provide text exchange services

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2003030450A2 (en) * 2001-09-27 2003-04-10 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Method for providing communication information of a communication unit and devices for carrying out said method
WO2003030450A3 (en) * 2001-09-27 2003-08-14 Siemens Ag Method for providing communication information of a communication unit and devices for carrying out said method
WO2003030505A2 (en) * 2001-10-01 2003-04-10 Inventions, Inc. Method of contacting a party using multiple media
WO2003030505A3 (en) * 2001-10-01 2003-08-21 Inv S Inc Method of contacting a party using multiple media
WO2005013596A1 (en) * 2003-07-24 2005-02-10 International Business Machines Corporation Chat and teleconferencing system with text to speech and speech to text translation
CN100546322C (en) * 2003-07-24 2009-09-30 国际商业机器公司 Chat and tele-conferencing system with the translation of Text To Speech and speech-to-text
GB2443461A (en) * 2006-11-02 2008-05-07 George Rath Mobile phone
US8027839B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2011-09-27 Nuance Communications, Inc. Using an automated speech application environment to automatically provide text exchange services

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