Recording data at a mobile telephone during a telephone call
View Patent ↗A method for recording data at a mobile telephone during a telephone call between a user of the mobile telephone and a participant, including enabling a user to record first data during the telephone call; augmenting the first data with second data that identifies the participant, without user input of the second data; and storing the augmented first data.
1. A method, comprising:
enabling a user of a mobile telephone to record first data during a telephone call between the user of the mobile telephone and a participant;
augmenting the first data with second data that is at least one of data received during the telephone call and data derived from information received during the telephone call, where the second data identifies the participant, and where augmenting is performed without user input of the second data; and
storing the augmented first data;
where the augmented first data is a database record having at least one first field comprising the first data and a second field comprising the second data, and
where the database record is an appointment in a calendar and the at least one first field comprises at least one of the date, time, location and subject of the appointment and the second field comprises an attendee at the appointment.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second data additionally identifies the user.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the step of enabling enables the user to record text, as first data, during the telephone call.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the step of enabling enables the user to record speech, as first data, during the telephone call.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second data comprises text identifying a name of the participant.
6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first field includes a sound recording from the telephone call and the second field references the sound recording.
7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first field includes a text entry and the second field references the text entry.
8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first data is automatically augmented with the second data without user intervention.
9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising receiving, as a consequence of the telephone call, an identifier that identifies the participant and which is used to augment the first data with the second data.
10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the received identifier comprises the second data.
11. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising:
associating each one of a plurality of identifiers with a different data entity,
and using the received identifier to automatically obtain the data entity associated with the identifier corresponding to the received identifier and using the obtained data entity as the second data.
12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the received identifier is a telephone number.
13. The method of claim 1 , where enabling the user to record first data comprises, in response to the user selecting a record function, enabling a microphone and voice recognition software to respond to the user dictating details of the appointment by converting the user's voice to text and storing the text as the first data.
14. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory including computer program code, where the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to,
enable a user of a mobile telephone to record first data during a telephone call between the user of the mobile telephone and a participant;
augment, without user input of second data, the first data with the second data, where the second data is at least one of data received during the telephone call and data derived from information received during the telephone call, where the second data identifies the participant; and
store the augmented first data;
where the augmented first data is a database record having at least one first field comprising the first data and a second field comprising the second data, and
where the database record is an appointment in a calendar and the at least one first field comprises at least one of the date, time, location and subject of the appointment and the second field comprises an attendee at the appointment.
15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the user input device enables the user to record text, as first data, during the telephone call.
16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the user input device enables the user to record speech, as first data, during the telephone call.
17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the second data additionally identifies the user.
18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the second data comprises text identifying a name of the participant.
19. The apparatus of claim 14 , where the user is enabled to record first data by, in response to the user selecting a record function, enabling a microphone and voice recognition software to respond to the user dictating details of the appointment by converting the user's voice to text and storing the text as the first data.
20. A graphical user interface comprising:
an option for enabling a mobile telephone to record during a telephone call first data for augmentation with second data that identifies a remote participant in the telephone call, without user input of the second data, and to store the augmented first data;
where the second data is at least one of data received during the telephone call and data derived from information received during the telephone call;
where the augmented first data is a database record having at least one first field comprising the first data and a second field comprising the second data, and
where the database record is an appointment in a calendar and the at least one first field comprises at least one of the date, time, location and subject of the appointment and the second field comprises an attendee at the appointment,
and where said graphical user interface comprises at least one control indicating a record function that operates, in response to the user selecting the record function, to enable a microphone and voice recognition software to respond to the user dictating details of the appointment by converting the user's voice to text and storing the text as the first data.
21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that contains software program instructions, where execution of the software program instructions by at least one data processor results in performance of operations that comprise:
enabling a user of a mobile telephone to record first data during a telephone call between the user of the mobile telephone and a participant;
augmenting the first data with second data that is at least one of data received during the telephone call and data derived from information received during the telephone call, where the second data identifies the participant, and where augmenting is performed without user input of the second data; and
storing the augmented first data;
where the augmented first data is a database record having at least one first field comprising the first data and a second field comprising the second data, and
where the database record is an appointment in a calendar and the at least one first field comprises at least one of the date, time, location and subject of the appointment and the second field comprises an attendee at the appointment.
22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , where enabling the user to record first data comprises, in response to the user selecting a record function, enabling a microphone and voice recognition software to respond to the user dictating details of the appointment by converting the user's voice to text and storing the text as the first data.