Revenue generation method for use with voice network access provider system and method

US6888929B1 · 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: May 3, 2005
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M3/487
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for generating revenue from providing pages of voice content when users input a voice code corresponding to that content. Voice codes (“VCodes”) have content stored corresponding thereto and when users view publicly displayed VCodes in proximity to an object, attraction or subject, the users may selectively access the stored content via telephone by calling a central number 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. A fee is collected based on the information retrieved and may be distributed between participants within the voice network access provider system.