Abstract:
The system & method for usage of electronically stored, dynamically up-dated physical location parameters of cellular-phone or similar Mobile Device 20 to inform/alert/announce to its subscriber about the location-dependent variable timings of five-times-daily Islamic prayers called Salaat (Arabic) or Namaaz (Urdu). The alert/information can be through textual message or through formal vocal announcement called Azaan . The system allows the Azaantime-deciding-algorithm 85 to be stored on the Mobile Device 20 or on some remotelyconnected Web-server based Azaan Software Application 40, and the actual calculation may either be done dynamically just before the announcement, or the timings may be looked-up from pre-calculated location-specific look-up tables 80. The system further allows the location variables to be stored-on/retrieved-from the hand-held-mobile-device 20, itself or on some other remotely-connected computer called location-server 30. The format/accuracy of location parameters varies with the network-providers, but CELL-ID is the commonly used parameter by all cellular network technologies which rely on Cellular Base Station 25 for connectivity to the Mobile Device 20. However other location-describing formats like TA, EFLT, GPS, AGPS, TDOA, AOA, AFLT, EOTD, etc. may also be used to calculate and/or announce the Azaantimings. The system further allows transmittal of highly personalized notification to individual subscribers by storing personal preferences in a Subscribers Database 70 which is accessible to the Azaan-Software application 40 which employs the algorithm for dynamic notification 85, and thus personal preferences for different juristic methods, and selected modes of announcements can be accommodated.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, advertisements are delivered to a telephone user by detecting an interest by a user in a destination telephone number (202), determining a category of the destination telephone number (204), and providing the user an advertisement based on the category of the destination telephone number (206). For example, a call by a user to a destination telephone number may be detected. A database may then be consulted to determine if the destination telephone number belongs to a particular category of businesses (e.g., restaurant, movie theater, air line,...). If so, advertisements for similar businesses may be provided to the telephone user. Among other advantages, this allows for delivery of relevant advertisements to telephone users.
Abstract:
In a system and method for the display, or presentation, of electronic information in an ambient, or pre-attentive, form, a centralized server converts textual or quantitative data into a form suitable for remotely located non-textual ambient displays, or objects. The conversion, or translation, of the information occurs in response to a set of rules which may be fixed at the server, or otherwise modifiable by a user of the display, for example via Web-based interface, or at the display itself. The translated data, referred to herein as "ambient data" is in compressed, encoded form, so as to optimize the efficiency of its periodic transmission of such data to multiple remotely located recipient displays. In one example, the display comprises an analog-type gauge having a hand that varies in angular or linear offset, or multiple hands that independently vary in angular or linear offset, in response to the received ambient data. In another example, the transmission of data from the information server to the ambient displays occurs via a one-way or two-way wireless network.
Abstract:
In a system and method for the display, or presentation, of electronic information in an ambient, or pre-attentive, form, a centralized server converts textual or quantitative data into a form suitable for remotely located non-textual ambient displays, or objects. The conversion, or translation, of the information occurs in response to a set of rules which may be fixed at the server, or otherwise modifiable by a user of the display, for example via Web-based interface, or at the display itself. The translated data, referred to herein as "ambient data" is in compressed, encoded form, so as to optimize the efficiency of its periodic transmission of such data to multiple remotely located recipient displays. In one example, the display comprises an analog-type gauge having a hand that varies in angular or linear offset, or multiple hands that independently vary in angular or linear offset, in response to the received ambient data. In another example, the transmission of data from the information server to the ambient displays occurs via a one-way or two-way wireless network.
Abstract:
A system of delivering an audio message to a subscriber using a communications network, the system comprising storage means (22, 26) for storing audio sequences representing any one of the following: voices of one or more characters, one or more sound effects or recordings associated with an event; and server means (16) for constructing the audio message. The audio message comprises at least one of the stored audio sequences wherein the audio message is associated with the event and is transmitted by a server means over said communications network to the subscriber.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a service platform (SP) for operation in telecommunication networks, said service platform (SP) comprising at least one computer structure (6) having an associated general format (GF), said computer structure (6) comprising gateway interface means (5a, 5b, 5c) adapted for communicating with at least two communication networks (2a, 2b, 2c) via operator gateways (OGW1, OGW2, OGW3), each operator gateway (OGW1, OGW2, OGW3) having associated operator gateway formats (OGWF1, OGWF2, ... OGWFn), at least two of said operator gateway formats (OGW1, OGW2, OGW3) being mutually different, where said service platform (SP) comprising transformation means (TM; TM1, TM2, TM3) is adapted for transforming said operator gateway formats (OGWF1, OGWF2, ... OGWFn) into said general format (GF) and/or for transforming said general format (GF) into said operator gateway formats (OGWF1, OGWF2, ... OGWFn), and thereby facilitate communication between operator gateways and service platform gateways. The invention further relates to a telecommunication system, methods and use thereof.
Abstract:
A system for communication in a language requested by a user includes a cellular phone (100), a fixed telephone (500), and a server (200). The cellular phone (100) includes a reader (126) for reading language information in response to the insertion of a USIM card (128), a transmitter (122) for transmitting the language information and destination information to the server (200), and a voice output device (138) for providing output indicative of the information received from the server (200). The server (200) includes a circuit for storing the language information received from the cellular phone (100); a circuit for transmitting the stored language information to the fixed telephone (500) at a destination, the information about which is received from the cellular phone (100); and a circuit for transmitting the received information to the cellular phone (100) in response to the information from the fixed telephone (500) at the destination.
Abstract:
A system and method of pushing user-selected data items from a host system to a user's mobile data communication device upon detecting the occurrence of one or more user-defined event triggers is provided. The user may then move (or file) the data items to a particular folder within a folder hierarchy stored in the mobile data communication device, or may execute some other system on the data item. Software operating at the mobile device and the host system then synchronizes the folder hierarchy of the mobile device with a folder hierarchy of the host system, and nay actions executed on the data items at the mobile device are then automatically replicated on the same data items stored at the host system, thus eliminating the need for the user to manually replicate actions at the host system that have been executed at the mobile data communication device.
Abstract:
A method for facilitating a wireless transaction includes communicating a transaction request from a wireless communication device to a transaction apparatus and communicating a spoken authentication code from the wireless communication device to the transaction apparatus. After the spoken authentication code is authenticated, a transaction code is received by the wireless communication device. After receiving the transaction code, the transaction code is displayed on and optically scanned from a visual display of the wireless communication device.
Abstract:
A method for facilitating a wireless transaction includes receiving, by a transaction fulfillment system, a transaction request from a transaction requester and verifying an identity of the transaction requester. After verifying the identity of the transaction requester, a transaction code is communicated from the transaction fulfillment system to a wireless communication device. After receiving the transaction code, the transaction code is optically scanned from a visual display of the wireless communication device by the transaction fulfillment system.