Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Synchronous communication using voice and text
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Application No.: US17266534Application Date: 2019-01-08
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Publication No.: US11811968B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Shavit Matias , Noam Etzion-Rosenberg , Rebecca Chiou , Benjamin Schlesinger , Brandon Charles Barbello , Ori Kabeli , Usman Abdullah , Eric Erfanian , Michelle Tadmor , Aditi Bhargava , Jan Piotr Jedrzejowicz , Alex Agranovich , Nir Shemy , Paul Dunlop , Yossi Matias , Kyungmin Youn , Nadav Bar
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2019/012723 2019.01.08
- International Announcement: WO2020/055446A 2020.03.19
- Date entered country: 2021-02-05
- Main IPC: H04M3/42
- IPC: H04M3/42 ; H04M3/436

Abstract:
A computing device is described that accepts, a telephone call, from another device, initiated by a caller. Prior to establishing a telephone user interface that receives spoken input from the user and outputs spoken audio from the caller, the computing device executes a call screening service that outputs an audio user interface, to the other device and as part of the telephone call. The audio user interface interrogates the caller for additional information including a purpose of the telephone call, which allows the user to have more context of the telephone call before deciding whether to accept the call or hang up. The computing device outputs a graphical user interface associated with telephone call. The graphical user interface includes an indication of the additional information obtained via the audio user interface that interrogates the caller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210314440A1 Synchronous Communication Using Voice and Text Public/Granted day:2021-10-07
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