Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-media integrated message arrangement
- Patent Title (中): 多媒体综合消息安排
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Application No.: US29193Application Date: 1993-03-10
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Publication No.: US5479411APublication Date: 1995-12-26
- Inventor: Robert M. Klein
- Applicant: Robert M. Klein
- Applicant Address: NJ Murray Hill
- Assignee: AT&T Corp.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: NJ Murray Hill
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; H04L12/54 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L29/06 ; H04M3/53 ; H04M11/06 ; H04N1/00
Abstract:
Voice, facsimile, and electronic mail messaging is integrated in a system (FIG. 1 ) that converts e-mail messages into voice-and-fax messages. An e-mail message (400) is parsed into voiceable, prose, segments (403) and non-voiceable, non-prose, segments (404). Prose segments are converted into voice message segments (503) via text-to-speech facilities. Each non-prose segment is converted into a fax segment (504). Voice pointers (505) to fax segments are inserted into the voice message, in places corresponding to the non-prose segments in the e-mail message. The voice file (500) and fax file (510) are then stored for subsequent delivery of the message as an integrated voice-and-fax message. Conversion of integrated voice-and-fax messages into e-mail messages is likewise envisioned.
Public/Granted literature
- USD363717S Telephone base Public/Granted day:1995-10-31
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