Comments on: Sprint, Klausner Pact on Visual Voicemail http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/sprint-klausner-pact-on-visual-voicemail/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:06:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Art Rosenberg http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/sprint-klausner-pact-on-visual-voicemail/#comment-55995 Art Rosenberg Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:11:29 +0000 #comment-55995 I consider Klausner a "patent troll" for a capability he was not the first to invent. As I explained in my <a href="http://www.UCStrategies.comm" title="www.UCStrategies.comm" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">www.UCStrategies.comm</a> newsroom commentary, voice messaging pioneer Delphi Communications publicized that functionality in its VoiceBank operator-assisted voice messaging service back in 1982 to the many subscribers who did not necessarily have access to TouchTone phones. In such cases, an operator would see a display of undelivered voice messages and manually initiate the playback and disposition of the voice messages for the subscriber.<br /> <br /> Subsequently, leading voicemail systems used Microsoft's email software client to display and control playback of voicemail messages over a desktop extension phone Today, with the rapid growth of mobile "smartphones" and email-based unified messaging, the screen interface for voice mail retrieval is becoming commonplace. and Klausner is pursuing his unjustified claim with greater vigor.<br /> <br /> With the maturity of speech recognition, automated transcription of voice mail messages into text messages will make "visual voicemail" more than just a visual retrieval interface directory, but provide message recipients with a more efficient means of managing voice message content as email or SMS text messages. <br /> <br /> Art Rosenberg<br /> The Unified-View<br /> artr@ix.netcom.com I consider Klausner a “patent troll” for a capability he was not the first to invent. As I explained in my http://www.UCStrategies.comm newsroom commentary, voice messaging pioneer Delphi Communications publicized that functionality in its VoiceBank operator-assisted voice messaging service back in 1982 to the many subscribers who did not necessarily have access to TouchTone phones. In such cases, an operator would see a display of undelivered voice messages and manually initiate the playback and disposition of the voice messages for the subscriber.

Subsequently, leading voicemail systems used Microsoft's email software client to display and control playback of voicemail messages over a desktop extension phone Today, with the rapid growth of mobile “smartphones” and email-based unified messaging, the screen interface for voice mail retrieval is becoming commonplace. and Klausner is pursuing his unjustified claim with greater vigor.

With the maturity of speech recognition, automated transcription of voice mail messages into text messages will make “visual voicemail” more than just a visual retrieval interface directory, but provide message recipients with a more efficient means of managing voice message content as email or SMS text messages.

Art Rosenberg
The Unified-View
artr@ix.netcom.com

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