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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2012
Applicants:

Research IN Motion Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Qnx Software Systems Limited, Kanata, CA;

Inventors:

Stephen Lau, Ottawa, CA;

Darrin Kenneth John Fry, Kanata, CA;

Jianqiang Shi, Nepean, CA;

Assignees:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

2236008 Ontario Inc., Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/27 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04M 1/2745 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/271 (2013.01); H04L 61/1594 (2013.01); H04M 1/274525 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of initiating a communication using speech recognition on a mobile wireless communication device. Voice input is parsed using speech recognition to identify and extract a name and a communication type to be initiated from a plurality of potential communication types. A local address book is searched to identify all contact records having both a contact name including the name extracted from the voice input and a populated address field associated with the communication type extracted from the voice input. When only one contact record matches the extracted information, a communication is automatically initiated to the contact address from the populated address field of the contact record using an application associated with the communication type. When more than one contact record in the local address book matches the extracted information, a list of all of the matching contacts is output from which a communication can be initiated.


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