Patent ID: 7953447

Claim:
A voice controlled communications system, comprising: a control computer; an access device having a speaker, a microphone and a processing unit that executes a badge application that communicates with the control computer; wherein the access device with the badge application further comprises an unassigned state and an assigned state such that the badge application is initially in the unassigned state when it has not been assigned to a user, the badge application enters the assigned state when the badge application has been assigned to a user and the badge application returns to the unassigned state when the user has finished using the badge application so that the badge application is dynamically bound to the user while the user is using the badge application; and wherein the control computer further comprises a voice recognition system that receives voice commands from a user using the microphone and badge application and wherein the badge application is assigned to a particular user when the user first issues any command from the badge application to the voice recognition system.