Patent ID: 6216104
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
A computer system comprising:a server system;a plurality of user equipment devices coupled to the server system via a network;an application data store and user-specific data store accessible to the network and containing user specific information of users of the system, the user specific information comprising (i) user speech synthesis profiles including prosodic information for synthesizing vocal characteristics of the user, and (ii) user message delivery profiles indicating which of a plurality of possible message delivery vehicles are to be used for message delivery to the user;means at user equipment for an originating user to initiate production of a message for a recipient user, said message comprising speech markup language text which includes prosodic information from the speech synthesis profile of a determined user downloaded to the user equipment by the server; anda message delivery system for delivering the message to the recipient user in accordance with the recepient user's stored message delivery profile.