Patent Application

App. No. 12/016,450

Abstract

Claims (50)

1 . A method comprising:

determining, from content of a first field of a received first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, a preferred language;

selecting a writing script that corresponds to the determined preferred language; and

sending a second SIP message carrying, in a second field, information expressed in the selected writing script.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein:

the first field comprises an “Accept-language” field, and the second field comprises one of a “P-Asserted-Identity”, “From”, and “Contact” field.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein:

determining comprises

receiving the first SIP message from a first party to a communication, and

determining the preferred language of the first party; and

sending comprises

sending the second SIP message to the first party, wherein the information comprises and identifier of a second party to the communication.

4 . The method of claim 3 further comprising:

displaying,

in the selected writing script, the identifier of the second party to the first party.

5 . The method of claim 4 wherein:

the identifier comprises a name of the second party.

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein:

selecting comprises

determining the writing script from contents of a database that correlates writing scripts with languages.

7 . A method comprising:

sending a first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message having a

first field whose contents identify a preferred language;

in response, receiving a second SIP message carrying, in a second field, information expressed in a writing script that corresponds to the preferred language; and

displaying the information expressed in the writing script.

8 . The method of claim 7 further comprising:

selecting, on a basis of the preferred language identified by the

sent SIP message, the writing script that corresponds to the preferred language.

9 . The method of claim 7 wherein:

the first field comprises an “Accept-language” field, and

the second field comprises one of a “P-Asserted-Identify”, “From”, and “Contact” field.

10 . The method of claim 7 wherein:

sending comprises

sending the first SIP message to a second party to a communication, wherein the content of the first field identifies a preferred language of a first party to the communication;

receiving comprises

receiving the second SIP message from the second party, wherein the second field carries an identifier of the second party; and

displaying comprises

displaying the identifier expressed in the writing script to the first party.

11 . A computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform the method of one of claims 1 - 10 .

12 . An apparatus comprising:

a source of information correlating writing scripts with languages;

an input and output for receiving and sending Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages; and

an entity responsive to receipt of a first SIP message for determining, from contents of a first field of the first SIP message, a preferred language, for determining from the source of information a writing script that corresponds to the preferred language, and for sending a second SIP message carrying, in a second field, information expressed in the determined writing script.

13 . The apparatus of claim 12 wherein:

the first field comprises an “Accept-language” field, and

the second field comprises one of a “P-Asserted-Identity”, “From”, and “Contact” field.

14 . The apparatus of claim 12 wherein:

the information comprises an identifier of a second party to a communication expressed in a writing script that corresponds to a preferred language of a first party to the communication.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 wherein:

the identifier comprises a name of the second party for displaying to the first party.

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