Patents by Inventor Mehmat Reha Civanlar

Mehmat Reha Civanlar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application
    Patent number: 7949109
    Abstract: A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be delivered by an animated entity. The instructions comprise receiving from the sender inserted voice emoticons, which may be repeated, into the text message associated with parameters of a voice used by an animated entity to deliver the text message; and transmitting the text message such that a recipient device can deliver the multi-media message at a variable level associated with a number of times a respective voice emoticon is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmat Reha Civanlar, Hans Peter Graf, Thomas M. Isaacson
  • System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application
    Patent number: 7697668
    Abstract: A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be delivered by an animated entity. The instructions comprise receiving from the sender inserted voice emoticons, which may be repeated, into the text message associated with parameters of a voice used by an animated entity to deliver the text message; and transmitting the text message such that a recipient device can deliver the multi-media message at a variable level associated with a number of times a respective voice emoticon is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Joern Ostermann, Mehmat Reha Civanlar, Hans Peter Graf, Thomas M. Isaacson