WO1998005154A1 - Voice mailbox for text messages - Google Patents

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WO1998005154A1
WO1998005154A1 PCT/SE1997/001200 SE9701200W WO9805154A1 WO 1998005154 A1 WO1998005154 A1 WO 1998005154A1 SE 9701200 W SE9701200 W SE 9701200W WO 9805154 A1 WO9805154 A1 WO 9805154A1
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Peter Magnusson
Göran URBY
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Telia Ab
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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
    • H04M3/50—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
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/12—Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

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  • the present invention relates to a device and a method at a telecommunication system, which system includes at least one fixed network- one mobile network, and at least one voice mailbox.
  • the above said aim is achieved by means of a device and a method which attends to conversion of the in a voice mailbox stored speech message to a text message corresponding to said speech message, at which said device further attends to transmission of said text message to a portable terminal .
  • this service can solve the problem by transmitting the message to either a pager, GSM telephone or the like .
  • Figure 1 shows schematically the telecommunication system according to the present invention .
  • the B-subscriber not accessible .
  • the A-subscriber speaks a voice message. 3. Voice-to-text conversion.
  • the X number of the first characters in the message are transmitted to the B-subscriber (160 characters in SMS GSM) .
  • a subscriber A tries to call a mobile subscriber B .
  • the subscriber B cannot be accessed, so the subscriber A will speak a message for subscriber B's voice mailbox 2.
  • the speech message in the voice mailbox 2 is transmitted to a speech/text converter 3 which converts said speech message to a corresponding text message and transmits said text message to said mobile terminal via a mobile station 1.
  • the speech/text-conversion is made according to technology applied for, for a patent by Telia, as will be seen in the Swedish patent applications SE- 9401613-6 (US08/43062) and SE-9502202-6 (EP-96850108.0) .
  • the text message is shown on the display of the mobile terminal 4.
  • the subscriber B consequently directly can read the message without the need to call his/her voice mailbox.
  • the mobile terminal can consist of just any mobile telephone or pager.
  • the first x number (.amount) of the characters of the speech message (for instance the first 160 characters in the GSM/text-case) are transmitted to the mobile terminal .
  • the invention is intended to be used within all telephony, PSTN as well as cellular systems, where voice mailboxes are used.
  • PSTN PSTN
  • Telia's "Telesvar” station-located personal telephone answering facility
  • Telia's "mobile answering service” for GSM/NMT can be connected to this service according to the present invention .

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Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method at a telecommunication system which can convert one in the fixed network stored voice mailbox message to one in the mobile network transmissionable text message. The invention is characterized in that in the telecommunication system arranged voice mailbox a speech/text-conversion is made, and that the first number of characters in the message, for instance 160, are transmitted to the receiving telephone or the pager. The receiver then can read his/her message on the display unit of the receiving unit.

Description

TITLE OF THE INVENTION: VOICE MAILBOX FOR TEXT MESSAGES
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a device and a method at a telecommunication system, which system includes at least one fixed network- one mobile network, and at least one voice mailbox.
PRIOR ART When a mobile telephone user is in a situation where he/she cannot talk on the telephone but yet has to receive a message, then the call can be connected to one in the telecommunication system arranged voice mailbox where a voice message can be delivered by the calling party. Said voice mailbox after that transmits a text message to the telecommunication terminal or the pager about that there is a message to be collected. This, however, will not help the person who due to his/her situation cannot call the voice mailbox and listen to the message. The aim with the present invention consequently is to solve this problem.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above said aim is achieved by means of a device and a method which attends to conversion of the in a voice mailbox stored speech message to a text message corresponding to said speech message, at which said device further attends to transmission of said text message to a portable terminal .
One advantage with this is of course that a user of a portable terminal immediately can read his/her message and form an opinion of the importance of this without needing to call his/her voice mailbox. The user consequently saves time.
Also when there is a telephone answering machine in the PSTN-network/exchange (for instance "Telesvar") and the user has no possibility to call and check his/her telephone answering machine, this service can solve the problem by transmitting the message to either a pager, GSM telephone or the like .
More characteristics of the invention are given in the subclaims .
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
In the following a detailed description is given of an embodiment of the invention with reference to the only drawing.
Figure 1 shows schematically the telecommunication system according to the present invention .
1. The B-subscriber not accessible .
2. The A-subscriber speaks a voice message. 3. Voice-to-text conversion.
4. The X number of the first characters in the message are transmitted to the B-subscriber (160 characters in SMS GSM) .
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF AN EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
A subscriber A tries to call a mobile subscriber B . The subscriber B, however, cannot be accessed, so the subscriber A will speak a message for subscriber B's voice mailbox 2. The speech message in the voice mailbox 2 is transmitted to a speech/text converter 3 which converts said speech message to a corresponding text message and transmits said text message to said mobile terminal via a mobile station 1. The speech/text-conversion is made according to technology applied for, for a patent by Telia, as will be seen in the Swedish patent applications SE- 9401613-6 (US08/43062) and SE-9502202-6 (EP-96850108.0) . The text message is shown on the display of the mobile terminal 4. The subscriber B consequently directly can read the message without the need to call his/her voice mailbox. The mobile terminal can consist of just any mobile telephone or pager. In a special embodiment the first x number (.amount) of the characters of the speech message (for instance the first 160 characters in the GSM/text-case) are transmitted to the mobile terminal . The invention is intended to be used within all telephony, PSTN as well as cellular systems, where voice mailboxes are used. Within PSTN Telia's "Telesvar" (station-located personal telephone answering facility) can be connected to this service. Also Telia's "mobile answering service" for GSM/NMT can be connected to this service according to the present invention .
What has been said above is only to be regarded as an advantageous embodiment of the invention, and the scope of protection of the invention is defined only in what is indicated in the following patent claims.

Claims

PATENT CLAIMS 1. Device at a telecommunication system, which system includes at least one fixed network, preferably PSTN, at least one mobile network, and at least one voice mailbox (2), c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it attends to conversion of one in a voice mailbox (2) stored speech message to a text message corresponding to said speech message, after which said device attends to transmission of said text message to a terminal (4) .
2. Device according to patent claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said text message is shown on the screen of said terminal (4) .
3. Device according to any of the patent claims 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said terminal (4) is just any mobile telephone, just any pager, or just any portable terminal .
4. Device according to any of the previous patent claims , c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it attends to speech/text-conversion of a first in advance decided number of characters, for instance the first 160 characters, and transmits these characters to said terminal (4) .
5. Method at a telecommunication system, which system includes at least one fixed network, preferably PSTN, at least one mobile network, and at least one voice mailbox (2) , c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it includes the steps that:
(a) just any one subscriber (A) tries to call just any one subscriber (B) ;
(b) subscriber (B) is not accessible, at which subscriber (A) speaks a message for subscriber (B) ' s voice mailbox (2) ;
(c) the speech message in the voice mailbox (2) is transmittted to a speech/text-converter (3) which converts said speech message to a corresponding text message; (d) the speech/text-converter (3) transmits said text message to said subscriber (B)'s terminal (4) via a station
(1) ;
(e) said text message is shown to the subscriber (B) on the display of said terminal (4) .
6. Method according to patent claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said terminal consist of just any mobile telephone, just any pager, or just any mobile terminal .
7. Method according to any of the patent claims 5 or 6, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said speech/text- converter (3) only transmits a first predetermined number of characters of the speech message to said terminal (4) .
8. Method according to patent claim 7 , c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that in the GSM-text case the first 160 characters of the speech message are transmitted.
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