Re: Voice Browser Patent

Jon,

Yes, it fits in with structured navigation, but there are W3C policy issues 
about including patented techniques in recommendations.  Lets discuss with 
Judy.

Len


At 11:53 AM 9/1/00 -0500, Jon Gunderson wrote:
>Leonard,
>We could add this as one of the techniques for structured navigation.
>
>Jon
>
>
>At 04:00 PM 8/31/2000 -0400, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:
>>A patent was recently issued on a method for (among other things) 
>>scanning web pages by voice.  Details are on the www-voice list:
>>
>>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/2000JulSep/0015.html
>>
>>I'm the inventor.   AT&T (who was my employer when I did the work) holds 
>>the rights.    The AT&T rep to w3c, Lorrie Cranor, and I coordinated so 
>>you're getting just this one posting here.
>>
>>Please post any general discussion, when appropriate, to the 
>>www-voice@w3.org list to keep in in one place.  (That's the public list, 
>>not the wg list).
>>
>>(Note: you'll need to subscribe to www-voice for your posting to be 
>>accepted.  Instructions from http://www.w3.org/Voice/ are as follows:
>>
>>    To subscribe send an email to  www-voice-request@w3.org with the word 
>> subscribe in the subject line
>>    (include the word unsubscribe if you want to unsubscribe)
>>
>>Len
>>
>>--
>>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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--
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/

Received on Tuesday, 5 September 2000 10:34:52 UTC