Parus Interactive has been awarded a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent Office for a patent that will change the way consumers and businesses communicate. The latest U.S. patent awarded to Parus Interactive is for technology that enables a speaker to respond to commands with conversational language — as opposed to simple “Yes” or “No” responses.  Any device that is voice command capable can be used with this new technology, which is a key component of Parus’ unified communications products.

 

VoIP industry analyst Jon Arnold says this intuitive speech capability represented by the latest Parus Interactive innovation is revolutionary.  “It creates new opportunities for speech applications to automate business processes through intuitive voice interfaces that first-time users can navigate with ease and comfort,” he said.

 

The Parus Interactive technology is designed to work in any transport medium — public telephony, wireless network, the public Internet, or a private network. As such, it is also capable of “understanding” voice commands via phone calls, conference calls, faxes, voice mail, email, or any other network communications, to perform any number of management functions (e.g., opening, storing, saving, screening, retrieving, deleting, forwarding, sending, modifying, playing, or reading).

 

This new patent is another addition to the previous patents Parus has been awarded, covering the use of speech recognition to control communications through speaker-independent speech commands over any device or transport medium.

 

“The importance of patents covering advances in communication technologies is becoming ever greater,” suggests Arnold.  “The awareness of the potential power of patent portfolios, such as that held by Parus Interactive, is becoming increasingly widespread.”