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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175650 | Providing telephone services based on a subscriber voice identification A method of providing a telephony service can include creating a database of subscriber identities and subscriber voice prints and telephony services associated with the subscriber identities and receiving a spoken utterance from a subscriber. A subscriber identity ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8145273 | Mobile terminal and call content management method thereof A method for operating a mobile terminal, and which includes performing voice recognition on call content to produce recognized call content, converting the recognized call content into one or more units of character information, registering the one or more units of... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145274 | Automatic setting of reminders in telephony using speech recognition Systems and methods for automatically setting reminders. A method for automatically setting reminders includes receiving utterances, determining whether the utterances match a stored phrase, and in response to determining that there is a match, automatically setting... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126512 | Blind dialing Devices and methods are presented to remotely dial wireless communications devices. A device is equipped with a microphone and a plurality of logic units to analyze incoming acoustic signals in the form of Morse code. Acoustic signals may comprise tapping sounds, or... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121649 | Voice-controlled communications system and method having an access device A communication system has a control computer, one or more concentrators and one or more computing device communicates wirelessly with the one or more concentrators is provided. The computing device is an access device to the communications system that permits the u... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116823 | Modular ear-piece/microphone (headset) operable to service voice activated commands The present invention provides a modular headset operable to support both voice communications and voice activated commands. This may involve the use of multiple voice CODECs to process voice communications and voice activated commands. The modular headset includes ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112119 | Portable electronic device An electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, a drive mechanism and a voice-activated module. The drive mechanism connects the first housing with the second housing. The voice-activated module control the drive mechanism to drive the first housing... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8019386 | Companion microphone system and method A method and system for enhancing speech intelligibility using wireless communication in portable, battery-powered and entirely user-supportable devices. The devices may be talker devices and receiver devices, where the audio signals input into the talker devices ma... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019387 | Speech recognition system for electronic switches in a non-wireline communications network Voice activated dialing is described for use in a mobile telecommunications system. A voice input is received from a wireless network user. A telephone number to be dialed is determined by using speaker independent speech recognition to interpret a string of spoken ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7986974 | Context specific speaker adaptation user interface A method for providing a context specific speaker adaptation user interface is disclosed. The method allows a specific user of a voice activated system to train a voice recognition system to understand specific uttered commands by receiving a training sequence initi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7953447 | Voice-controlled communications system and method using a badge application A communication system has a control computer, one or more concentrators and one or more access device each having a badge application that communicates wirelessly with the one or more concentrators. The access device with the badge application provides the user wit... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925304 | Audio manipulation systems and methods An audio manipulation method is provided. A call associated with a mobile device is received. Whether an audio manipulation flag is set for the mobile device is determined. An audio signal from the mobile device is manipulated based on an audio manipulation selectio... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917178 | Wireless communications device with voice-to-text conversion A wireless communications device includes a receiver that transmits and receives speech signals to and from a remote party via a wireless communications network. The received speech signals include information representative of one or more audible sounds associated ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7873390 | Provider-activated software for mobile communication devices A mobile voice communication device including a wireless transceiver circuit for transmitting and receiving voice communications and for receiving data; a digital processor; and a memory storing application program code which when executed on the digital processor c... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7809405 | System and method for reducing aviation voice communication confusion The present invention is a method for reducing aviation voice communication confusion. The method includes receiving a first voice radio communication in a processing system. The method further includes receiving a second voice radio communication in the processing ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787907 | System and method for using speech recognition with a vehicle control system A method for accessing data files with an in-vehicle control system from a remote source over a communication link. The communication link is established between an in-vehicle control system and the remote source. The method includes: establishing the communication ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7693552 | Text messaging device A hand-held wireless communication device for creating and sending text messages including ideograms, wherein the communication device includes an input interface for a user to make a phonetic input, and a processor for controlling a display device to display thereo... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689253 | Vehicle immersive communication system A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. Users interact with the system by speaking to it. The system processes text and processes commands. The system supports Bluetooth wireless technology fo... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676248 | Voice recognition script for headset setup and configuration A wireless local area network system and a headset for the system. The headset uses voice input information to set up parameters needed to connect the headset to the corresponding access point and then start the connection process. When the connection fails or succe... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7664536 | Character communication device A character communication device which is connected to a network and enables at least communication by using characters. The device comprises a candidate term display means (S104) for displaying a group of candidate terms prepared for message communication in... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657289 | Synthesized voice production A communications system for receiving and transmitting information signals. An electronic processor is adapted to receive information signals from at least one source, operatively connected to the electronic processor. An audible signal generator generates sounds re... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650168 | Voice activated dialing for wireless headsets A wearable wireless telecommunications headset may include at least a microphone, a speaker, a transceiver, a processor and a memory. The headset processes audio commands from a user, recognizing the commands and executing them appropriately. The headset communicate... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7634298 | 4DHelp mobile device for 4DHelp information distribution system The present invention provides for a mobile device component used in a 4DHelp information distribution system. The mobile device enables a user to utilize the 4DHelp information distribution system in a wireless environment such that even if the user is physically i... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7555316 | System and method for formatting and displaying numbers A system and method for formatting numbers is disclosed. The system and method can determine if a telephone number is received, either alone or as part of a string. If a telephone number is received, the system applies a format to the number corresponding to a recog... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551944 | Speech recognition system for electronic switches in a non-wireline communications network An advanced telecommunications system is provided for the recognizing of spoken commands over a cellular telephone, satellite telephone, or personal communications network. In the cellular application, for example, a Speech Recognition System interconnects either in... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7519397 | System for downloading multimedia content and associated process The invention relates to a system for downloading multimedia content via a mobile telephony network (10) to a terminal (50; 60, 70), comprising a voice recognition device (40), a database (30) connected to the network (10) and cont... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7502632 | Text messaging device A hand-held wireless communication device for creating and sending text messages including ideograms, said communication device including: an input interface for a user to make a phonetic input; and a processor for controlling a display device so as to display there... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7493145 | Providing telephone services based on a subscriber voice identification A method of providing a telephony service can include creating a database of subscriber identities and subscriber voice prints and telephony services associated with the subscriber identities and receiving a spoken utterance from a subscriber. A subscriber identity ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486969 | Transmitting portable terminal A transmitting cell phone 10 according to the present invention is provided with a character image DB 11, a user designator 12, a character image generator 13, and a communicator 17. A plurality of character images are preliminaril... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7437287 | Apparatus and method for voice recognition and displaying of characters in mobile telecommunication system An apparatus and method for speech recognition and character displaying in a mobile telecommunication system. In a speech recognition and character displaying apparatus for a mobile phone, an RF Module processes a signal received from a base station or to be transmi... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433704 | Portable communication terminal Acoustic input and output devices are made to operate properly according to communication processing. A portable communication terminal includes an acoustic input-output unit including a plurality of acoustic input elements to conduct acoustic inputting and acoustic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418281 | Centralized voice recognition unit for wireless control of personal mobile electronic devices Described are a method and system for controlling the operation of personal mobile electronic devices disposed about a user. Each device is adapted to receive command according to a common wireless protocol. A voice signal is generated in response to a voice command... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415289 | Apparatus and method for deploying an information retrieval system An information retrieval system includes a base station and multiple display stations. A user gives a voice command to one of the display stations and information is retrieved from the base station and displayed in real time; the information may be presented to the ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412260 | Routing call failures in a location-based services system A method and system for routing call failures in a location-based services system. A remote terminal is connected to a location-based services system and is used to generate a voice-based tailored request for information. The voice-based tailored request for informa... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409229 | Mobile communication terminal and method for inputting characters by speech recognition Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal capable of speech recognition that includes a speech processing unit, a speech recognizing unit, a speech information managing database and a control unit, and method for utilizing same. A speech signal is modulated by th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7386443 | System and method for mobile automatic speech recognition A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376397 | Key setting methods A method of user-defined key setting in a portable electronic communication device. Corresponding relationships between keys and functions is recorded in a first mapping table and the portable electronic communication device executes the functions accordingly. When ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373178 | Method for providing guide broadcasting for video phone by means of fallback between speech mode and data mode Disclosed is a method for providing a guide broadcasting in the same way as that for a voice call without changing hardware in a mobile communication system supporting a video phone. In the method, a Mobile Station transmits a ‘SETUP’ message for requesting mult... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372826 | Providing advanced communications features Advanced communications features are provided in a mobile communications network having at least one mobile switching center and at least one mobile station subsystem. The mobile switching center and mobile station subsystem each communicate signaling messages accor... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369872 | Mobile communication device for searching data based on rotation degree and a method thereof Disclosed is a mobile communication device for searching data based on a rotation angle. The mobile communication device includes a body; a geomagnetic sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the body based on an axis perpendicular to the earth surface; a main memo... | 05/06/2008 |
