Patent ID: 8260350
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for determining one or more characteristics of a caller associated with a communication device, the method comprising: enabling voice-dialing; associating a verbalized phone number and a verbalized name with one or more destinations of an outgoing call, wherein the one or more destinations are determined in response to receipt of one or more of the verbalized phone number and the verbalized name; in response to receiving a request to place an outgoing call to one or more destinations, a first telecommunication device detecting one or more biometric characteristics; receiving one or more of the verbalized phone number and the verbalized name; in response to receiving one or more of the verbalized phone number and the verbalized name, dynamically extracting one or more biometric voice samples from one or more of the verbalized phone number and the verbalized name, wherein the biometric voice sample is associated with a mood, a gender, an age, and an urgency of the caller; encoding the one or more biometric characteristics into a datagram, to generate an encoded datagram; and the first telecommunication device transmitting the encoded datagram to the one or more destinations specified by the outgoing call request, wherein the encoded datagram enables generation of an output of the biometric characteristics on a second telecommunication device at the one or more destinations.