Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
  • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
  • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
  • H04M1/7243—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality with interactive means for internal management of messages
  • H04M1/72433—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality with interactive means for internal management of messages for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones

Definitions

• the invention is in the field of telecommunications, and more particularly messaging systems using sound content, in particular voice and personalized.
• voice and personalized voice contents in several forms.
• a voice dedication is an audio message that is deposited in the voice mailbox of one or more correspondents who have voice mail. This can for example be a voice message recorded by the transmitter on a background sound.
• a user's voicemail greeting is the audio message heard by any correspondent who calls the user when the user cannot be reached (if their terminal is switched off or out of network coverage, if their line is unconditionally busy or diverted to voicemail, if the user refuses to answer the call, etc.).
• This personalization of the announcement can be done: - from a mobile or landline phone, by calling the voice messaging system: the user then records his welcome announcement (price of a consultation of the voice mailbox); - from a PC computer via WEB access (if this functionality is provided by the operator): the user records his welcome announcement using a microphone connected to his computer (service generally free).
• the user can then only record his voice.
• Personalization services for announcements offering more functionalities require access from a mobile phone or. fixed to a voice server connected to the messaging system in order to compose his announcement. The user can then select a predefined announcement or use the features available on the server to compose his own announcement.
• Personalization services for announcements or the sending of vocal dedications are generally chargeable (generally charge per connection, plus the cost of a special call). These various aforementioned services do not allow the user to compose his vocal dedication or his greeting without concern of the connection time, and in a truly personalized way. In addition, these systems generally allow the user to personalize his greeting by offering him only the possibility of recording his own voice. They do not allow for example to add a sound signature at the beginning or at the end of an announcement to constitute a more personalized announcement. They also do not allow adding, for example, music in the background to the voice message and thus constituting real personalized voice content.
• the object of the invention is to propose a means of producing and making available voice content, a means which is more extensive in terms of possibilities for personalizing the content.
• the invention further aims to provide a means with which the user is less concerned with the time spent personalizing the voice content.
• This object is achieved according to the invention thanks to a method of providing sound content, the method comprising a step consisting in producing sound content and in transmitting it using a telephone terminal, and a step consisting in receiving and carrying out a memorization of this sound content with a view to a subsequent consultation by a telephone terminal, the method being characterized in that it comprises a step of producing the sound content using the telephone terminal which precedes, in a temporally distinct manner, said step of transmitting this sound content by the telephone terminal.
• the invention further provides a telecommunication device providing sound content to at least one telephone terminal holder, the device comprising a sound content reception entity as well as a memory storage entity.
• MMS service is a service that allows subscribers (mobile today, and landline in the future) to send and receive multimedia messages (messages whose content can be text, images, sound and video ) large sizes.
• This service can be deployed on a mobile network (for example GSM, GPRS or UMTS) or on a fixed network wired or not (with information passed in the band).
• MMS service is provided by an MMS center (Multimedia Messaging Service Center) which stores and then sends MMS messages to recipients.
• MMS center Multimedia Messaging Service Center
• MMS client application integrated in the terminal allowing to compose, present, send and receive MMS messages.
• use from a landline will require an adapted station.
• the messages received by the user are typically stored in his terminal.
• the embodiment now described (FIG. 1) allows the user to send a dedication, that is to say an effectively personalized audio message to the voice mailbox of another user (or of several users) outside of any connection during the preparation of this message, from its terminal.
• we plan here to take advantage of the MMS infrastructure to send this audio message from the user terminal preferably to a short number defined by the operator who wishes to implement this service).
• the telephone number (s) of the recipient (s) (or, if applicable, the distribution list (s) desired) are indicated by the user either in the subject of the MMS message or in a text element of the message
• MMS itself (with for example the character ";” as separator of the different recipients).
• Examples of text elements of the MMS message thus sent are the following: - “0600000000”: in this case, the voice dedication will be deposited in the voice mailbox of the number 06 00 00 00 00 - “0600000000; 0600000001; List 1; 0600000002; List 2 ”: in this case, the voice dedication will be deposited in the mailboxes of the numbers 06 00 00 00 00, 06 00 00 00 01 and 0600 00 00 02, as well as in the mailboxes of all the numbers contained in the mailing lists 1 and 2 that the sender has predefined on his voice mail.
• the voicemail When the voicemail receives this MMS message, the audio element contained in it is deposited in the mailbox (es) of the recipient (s) specified in the subject or in the text element of the MMS message.
• the sequence of operations implemented (case where user 10 sends a vocal dedication to three users) is as follows First, correspondent 10 (fixed or mobile) creates a vocal dedication on his terminal (element audio). Then the correspondent 10 composes on his terminal an MMS message 15 consisting of an audio element 17, that is to say the voice dedication, a text element 19 comprising the list of recipient telephone numbers 34, 36 and 38. Then, the correspondent 10 sends this MMS message 15 to the short number N, corresponding to an MMS center 20 (MMS center).
• MMS center MMS center
• the MMS center 20 then sends this message 15 to voicemail 30.
• voicemail 30 There are also provided, as a variant, two short numbers N1 and N2 dedicated to the reception and processing respectively of a message for voicemail and a greeting.
• the user depending on the nature of his sound content, sends his MMS message to the number N1 or the number N2.
• a processing unit 32 retrieves the audio element 17 and the telephone numbers contained in the MMS message 15 received, then deposits this voice message 17 in the voice boxes 34, 36 and 38.
• the mobiles ( MMS mobile phones in particular) today offer increasingly rich potential for the composition of audio messages (generally much richer and more scalable than those available on current servers offering these services for sending vocal dedications).
• the content 17 is defined previously as voice
• the content 17 of the message 15 may, in the context of the invention, be composed of sounds generated by electronics without voice content.
• a possible vocal content can moreover be a pre-recording, possibly of a synthetic voice.
• Modern terminals also allow the mixing of different audio elements, the addition of effects (echoes, distortions, fades, etc.) of sound backgrounds or sound signatures, etc. After composition and before sending, these audio messages are for example stored in the memory of the mobile terminal.
• This messaging service is here of the type that can be consulted by establishing a telephone connection (listening to its answering machine messages or listening to the greeting message of a contact person). It can also be viewed by WEB access via a computer.
• an SMTP interface Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
• MM3 or MM7 interfaces can be used on the MMS 20 side. The MM3 interface is the interface between the MMS center 20 and the external messaging systems.
• the MM7 interface is the interface between the MMS 20 center and the Value Added Service providers. This interface is standardized (SOAP protocol version 1.1 on http [4]).
• the connection of the MMS center 20 and the voicemail 30 is for example set up using the MM3 interface of the MMSC (based on the SMTP protocol) and an SMTP interface on the voicemail.
• the correspondent 10 sends the MMS message to the short number N (or one of the numbers N1, N2), via the existing interface MM1 of the MMS center and the MMS center sends this message to voicemail via its interface MM3 (SMTP protocol).
• Another implementation mode uses an MM7 interface at the MMS center 20 (based on the SOAP protocol) and uses a SOAP interface on voice mail.
• the correspondent 10 sends this MMS message to the short number N via the existing interface MM1 of the MMS Center and the MMS Center sends this message to voicemail via its interface MM7 (SOAP protocol).
• SOAP protocol SOAP protocol
• FIG. 2 indicates the sequence of operations implemented in the event that the user 10 modifies his welcome announcement.
• the correspondent 10 fixed or mobile
• the correspondent 10 composes on his terminal an MMS message 15 containing this audio element 17.
• the correspondent 10 sends this MMS message to the short number N (or one of the numbers N1, N2) corresponding to an MMS center 20.
• the MMS center 20 then sends this message to voicemail 30.
• a processing unit 32 retrieves the audio assembly 17 contained in the MMS message 15 as well as the telephone number of the sender of the message then replaces the sender's greeting 39 with this audio element in the voice mailbox 38.
• a SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
• the MMSC side depending on the architecture chosen, the MM3 or MM7 interfaces can be used.
• the connection of the MMS center and the voicemail 30 is for example set up using the MM3 interface of the MMS center (based on the SMTP protocol) and using an SMTP interface on the voicemail.
• the user 10 sends the MMS message to the short number N via the existing interface MM1 of the MMS center and the MMS center sends the message to voice mail via its interface MM3 (SMTP protocol).
• SMSTP protocol interface MM3
• Another embodiment uses an MM7 interface of the MMS center 20 based on the SOAP protocol and uses a SOAP interface on voicemail.
• the user 10 sends the MMS message to the short number N via the existing interface MM1 of the MMS center, then the MMS center sends this message to voicemail 30 via its interface MM7 (SOAP protocol) (new feature provided by the invention).
• SOAP protocol new feature provided by the invention.
• the service constituted by this invention is advantageous in particular for a telecommunications operator, mobile or fixed.

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