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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1998
William J. Haber, Tempe, AZ (US);
Thomas Kroncke, Gilbert, AZ (US);
William G. Schmidt, Sun Lakes, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for establishing a communication link, wherein the system includes a communications unit (,, FIG.,) having a vocoder (,) for providing user-specific voice data in the form of a unique set of speech characteristic model parameters for each authorized user. The method (,, FIG.,) includes the steps of providing user-specific voice data via a connection training method (FIGS.,or,), collecting a sample of speech characteristics from a user desiring to access the communication unit (,, FIG.,), comparing the sample with the user-specific voice data (,), granting the user access to the communication unit to establish a communication link with another communication unit if the sample is comparable with the user-specific voice data (,), and denying the user access to the communication unit if the sample is incomparable with the user-specific voice data (,).