Multiple voice network access provider system and method

US6707889B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• MicroStrategy Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Michael J. Saylor · Vienna, US
• Stephen Scott Trundle · Falls Church, US
• Anurag Patnaik · Arlington, US
• David A. Garr · Washington, US
• Benjamin M. Lindsey · Fairfax, US
• Josh Mahowald · Washington, US
• Zeynep Inanoglu · Arlington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 16, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2215/202
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method in which multiple voice network access provider (“VNAP”) systems cooperate to enable output of voice pages based on input of a voice code (“VCodes”) assigned to the voice pages. Each multiple voice network access provider enables user to access content corresponding to the VCodes publicly displayed in proximity to an object, attraction or subject, by calling a central number for that VNAP and entering the VCode or verbally describing the object, attraction or subject, in which case the verbal description is associated with a VCode or collection of VCodes.