SensoryMetrics

In 2001 we were granted US patent #6,310,944 ‘Method for adding context to communications’ which describes a way for augmenting communications between called and calling parties with context information to help either or both parties decide whether and how to accept or initiate a communications event. This was one of those effortless patents – a simple and clear value proposition of a big idea.

This little patent sure has legs! Since its granting, it has been referred 15 times by companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Seimens and BellSouth. Today The US Patent Office granted Lucent patent #7,142,857 – which refers our context patent yet again. Lucent describes a method by which it can preserve call context in a mobile packet-based network.

This is a great indicator of the importance of context in communications especially with mobility. There are a few leaders with product in this arena: TrueContext with mobile data, and iotum with call relevance.

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