Kirusa Receives Patent

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. -- Kirusa, the leading developer of Voice SMS and other value added mobile services, has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademarks Office for "A Technique for Synchronizing Visual and Voice Browsers to Enable Multi-Modal Browsing". The patent is for a technology that allows voice browsers to be synchronized with visual browsers to allow customers to experience a better multi-modal user interface.

Multimodal technology allows users to combine voice and visual interfaces when interacting with an application. Voice interaction can escape the physical limitations on keypads and displays as mobile devices become ever smaller. Visual and Voice enabled multimodal browsing empowers users to interact with applications in ways that are most suitable to the situation. For example, a user can ask for a stock quote by speaking the name of a company, and then see the results as a graph on the screen of a mobile device. As another example, when using the Voice SMS application, a user can send and reply to SMS messages by speaking.

On receiving the patent David Berkley, Chief Scientist, Kirusa said, “As an innovator, Kirusa is continuously inventing new technology, and this patent further strengthens our intellectual property position. The technology covered by this patent forms the basis of the Kirusa Multimodal Platform, enabling creation of applications with a superior multimodal interface."

Kirusa Inc.