Patent ID: 7653000

Claim:
A method for generating an announcement in the form of an information output for a person engaged in real-time traffic communication to—be transmitted over a packet-oriented network wherein the announcement is also transmitted as a real-time traffic communication, the method comprising: signaling a request for generation of the announcement, for transmission as a real-time traffic communication, an information output to an information output system; generating a series of fragments which can be concatenated into an announcement; storing the fragments in a memory, system; generating a series of creation rules in accord with which the announcement is formed from the fragments, wherein the creation rules are referred by the information output system in accordance with a relevant service request and retrieved from the memory; storing the creation rules in the memory system; transmitting information about at least one coding method which can be used for encoding some of the fragments for the process of creating and transmitting the announcement, wherein the encoding is suitable both for output to the information output system and transmission over the packet-oriented network; acquiring from the memory system a plurality of the fragments as information output components in a coding suitable for information output over the packet switching network; determining a concatenation of a plurality of the fragments to form the announcement; transmitting the plurality of fragments to the information output system and then through the packet switching network in the suitable coding for receipt of the fragments at a destination so that a user can receive the announcement in accord with the concatenation, wherein the memory system transmits creation rules to the information output system for determination of the concatenation, the fragments information output component and the creation rules are stored in the information output system, and the announcement information output is generated upon an information output request based on the creation rules.