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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2014
Sorenson Communications, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Merle L. Walker, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Tara Lalor, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David Frye, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Kevin Selman, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Cameron Dadgari, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Lane Walters, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
SORENSON COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for enabling electronic communication with an audibly-impaired user are disclosed. A communication device receives a call from a video endpoint associated with a calling party, wherein the call is intended for the audibly-impaired user. If the audibly-impaired user is unavailable to receive the call, information is selected from a database with one or more entries associated with the audibly-impaired user. The one or more entries include a video greeting previously recorded by the audibly-impaired user and a text greeting previously entered by the audibly-impaired user. The video greeting and the text greeting are combined as a merged video stream. The merged video stream is then presented on the video endpoint associated with the calling party.