AT&T Accused of Infringing Voice Mapping System Technology

AT&T Inc. was sued by Lab Technology Inc., which says the telecom giant infringed its patented voice mapping technology.

Lab Technology’s complaint, which was filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, says that it holds all the rights to Patent No. 8,483,102, which is entitled “System and method for mapping a voice identity across multiple telephony networks with time attributes.”

When a caller places a call using the user’s voice identity, the call is routed to a phone or a designated voice application such as voice mail based on a voice identity ...