Patent ID: 7298830
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for transmission of audio content to a telephone, the system comprising: an audio stream navigation functionality operable by using a telephone user interface and enabling a user to select audio data to be heard by the user via said telephone; an interactive voice response unit operative in response to an input from said telephone user interface operating said audio stream navigation functionality; a transcoder operative in response to an input from said interactive voice response unit for providing audio data to the user via said telephone, the audio data transmitted from an audio source remote from said transcoder, to said interactive voice response unit in communication with said telephone for listening by said user via said telephone; a content manager, the transcoder and the interactive voice response (IVR) unit responsive to the content manager for directing the audio stream; and a cache, the cache responsive to the content manager for selectively receiving and rendering the directed audio stream, the telephone providing the user interface enabling said user to select a portion of the audio content, the system further operable to: