iVoice Files Four Additional Patent Applications

MATAWAN, NJ - iVoice Inc. has filed four additional patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in conjunction with the "Hear I Am" Voice Item Locator. The titles of the patents are "Voice Activated, Voice Responsive Product Locator System, Including Product Location Method Utilizing Product Bar and Product-Situated, Aisle-Identifying Bar Code," "Voice Activated, Voice Responsive Product Locator System, Including Product Location Method Utilizing Product Bar and Aisle-Situated, Aisle-Identifying Bar Code," "Product Location Method Utilizing Bar Code and Aisle-Situated, Aisle- Identifying Bar Code" and "Product Location Method Utilizing Bar Code and Product-Situated, Aisle- Identifying Bar Code". The present inventions include methods of creating data directories for locating items. The system is loaded with location data prior to use by customers or other users. The system may also be updated dynamically, as desired, while it is in use. The methodology involves utilization of bar codes to determine item identity, and the use of separate bar codes to determine locations. These separate bar codes are physically located on location structure, e.g. on aisle ends, shelf edges, bin walls, parking spaces, etc, or on products themselves. This location data is read in conjunction with item identification data by bar code readers, fed to a processor in a recognizable combined format, and then stored and used as the resource data of the locator system. also from iVoice MATAWAN, NJ - iVoice Inc. announced that the Hear I Am Voice Activated Locator can now include iVoice's Speech Enabled Auto Attendant on the same platform. The application allows a customer the ability to find an item in a store or to be transferred directly to the individual or department they are seeking all on the same call.