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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2012
Philip Hewinson, London, GB;
Philip Hewinson, London, GB;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods performed by data processing apparatus and computer storage media encoded with computer programs for receiving from a user information including a phonetic communication identifier that other users can speak into their respective communication devices to initiate communication with a communication device associated with the user, comparing the received phonetic communication identifier with a repository of phonetically unique communication identifiers each registered to an associated entity, registering the received phonetic communication identifier in the repository if, based on a result of the comparison, the received phonetic communication identifier is determined to be phonetically unique relative to all other phonetically unique communication identifiers in the repository, and making the repository available to initiate communications with registered entities.