"AT&T FILED A lawsuit in a U.S. district court Monday against Microsoft in which it accused the software maker of selling products that include a patented digital speech technology developed by AT&T. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges that Microsoft's TrueSpeech software, used to code and decode voice signals, violates a patent that was originally issued to AT&T in 1984. TrueSpeech is incorporated in several Microsoft operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 2000, and Windows Me, according to the lawsuit. The suit also charges that Microsoft's NetMeeting product, which lets users hold video and voice conference calls over the Internet, makes use of the same patented technology." http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/06/04/010604hnattmic.xml http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51684,00.asp http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6187397.html -- -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org