- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:40:50 -0400
- To: patent-issues@w3.org
- Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001023121732.00d7c1c0@pop3.concentric.net>
To: Patent Issues mailing list (this was Bcc'd to w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-au@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, lorrie@research.att.com, jbrewer@w3.org, to avoid cross-posting if there are any responses. ) This is to to inform you of a patent that may be pertinent to w3c work, e.g. web accessibility evaluation tools. The patent is 5,475,733 December 12, 1995 Language accommodated message relaying for hearing impaired callers Inventors Eisdorfer; Jerry (Somerset, NJ); Kasday; Leonard R. (Moorestown, NJ); Schulz; David E. (Wheaton, IL) It contains an algorithm for identifying the language of text in TTY transmissions. This might be used e.g. to check if the LANG attribute should have been used in an HTML page, although that application is not mentioned in the patent (it was filed in 1994, before LANG was defined: cf http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/rfc1866.txt). This patent was originally assigned to AT&T. It may have been transferred to Lucent. -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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