Patent pool created for speech compression standards

MONTREAL - VoiceAge Corp. will create a patent pool for speech compression standards.The pool of AMR-WB/G.722.2 patents will provide users with convenient, fair, reasonable and non- discriminatory access to a portfolio of essential worldwide patents under a single license agreement, the press release said."As more and more wireless and wireline applications are adopting AMR-WB/G.722.2 for their wideband applications and services, it became imperative to establish, without delay, a joint licensing program and makeavailable a market enabling royalty structure to the industry," said VoiceAge president Laurent Amar in the release.AMR Wideband (AMR-WB) is the only speech codec to date to be...