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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2005
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, St. Charles, IL (US);
Mendel Keith Hamrick, Algonquin, IL (US);
Kelly Ann Multach, San Antonio, TX (US);
Elizabeth Marie Hart, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Kevin D. Kaschke, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Mary Louise Hardzinski, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas Joseph Mcblain, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, St. Charles, IL (US);
Mendel Keith Hamrick, Algonquin, IL (US);
Kelly Ann Multach, San Antonio, TX (US);
Elizabeth Marie Hart, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Kevin D. Kaschke, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Mary Louise Hardzinski, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas Joseph McBlain, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property, I,L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications system distributes text-to-speech synthesis between a telephone network and a telephone subscriber unit. The telephone network receives a telephone call from a first telephone subscriber unit over a first communication channel intended for a second telephone subscriber unit, determines that the second telephone subscriber unit subscribes to a speech-based caller identification service provided by the telephone network, converts text information, representing the caller identification of the first telephone subscriber unit into symbols, encodes the symbols to form a data stream, opens a second communication channel between the telephone network and the second telephone subscriber unit, and sends the data stream to the second telephone subscriber unit over the second communication channel.