Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Data Services Inc.

Verizon Data Services India Private Limited

Sathish Subramanian

Craig L Reding

Ashutosh K Sureka

Paula Ann Dromlewicz

Christopher L Helbling

Robert C Baruch

Alin L D'Silva

Shuchi R Patel

Sidhartha Basu

Indivar Verma

Paula A Dromlewiez

Exemplary methods and systems for facilitating SMS data transfer services in mobile devices are described. An exemplary method includes sending a first SMS message to a device with a payload of the first SMS message including machine-readable information. Next, a second SMS message may be received from the device with a payload of the second SMS message including machine-readable information. The first or second SMS message payloads may include, for example, a synchronization message, a call message, call data, or a scheduling message.

Short message service (SMS) data transfer

An interactive assistant for managing telephone communications and services is disclosed. In one of many possible method embodiments, a chat interface is provided to a device associated with an intended recipient of an incoming voice call. A chat message from the intended recipient is received through the chat interface. The chat message is presented to a calling party associated with the incoming call prior to a disposition of the call being determined. In other embodiments, an interface provides controls for individually managing calls on a conference call, without affecting other calls on the conference call.

Interactive assistant for managing telephone communications

A method may include receiving, via a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session over a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) channel, a digital audio signal from a remote control configured to receive audible information; terminating, responsive to receiving the digital audio signal, the SIP session; converting the digital audio signal into text based on a number of speech grammars corresponding to program guide information; obtaining, using the program guide information, a matching set of program guide entries related to the text to determine command information corresponding to the audible information; sending, via hypertext transfer protocol or file transfer protocol, the command information to a set-top box; and generating, at the set-top box responsive to receiving the command information, a display indicative of the matching set.

Controlling a set-top box for program guide information using remote speech recognition grammars via session initiation protocol (SIP) over a Wi-Fi channel

A device may receive over a network a digitized speech signal from a remote control that accepts speech. In addition, the device may convert the digitized speech signal into text, use the text to obtain command information applicable to a set-top box, and send the command information to the set-top box to control presentation of multimedia content on a television in accordance with the command information.

Controlling a set-top box via remote speech recognition

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