Patent ID: 6404876
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for connecting a calling party in a telecommunications network according to one or more utterances of the calling party during a call, said method comprising:pre-storing a unique callname for each of a plurality of terminating parties, each of the callnames being independent of the calling party; associating pointer words with combinations of the callnames; receiving a signal from the calling party, said signal including signal information that includes the calling party's utterances and non-speech data; compartmentalizing the plurality of stored callnames at the time of the call to identify a subset of at least two of the stored callnames based on the non-speech data; recognizing one of the stored callnames in the subset based on the calling party's utterances, and connecting the calling party to the terminating party corresponding to the recognized callname.