Doc -- Yes, nice to see all the green . . . I can't remember the last time the NASDAQ was up nearly 10% intraday . . . we'll see if there's any follow-through. A lot of cash has accumulated at mutual funds, so maybe this rally has some legs.
Re the patent, I agree with you that it is another demonstration of GMGC's leading position, and while the patent itself may or may not be defensible (if ever challenged, it'll be in the hands of the lawyers to figure it all out), the thing I find fascinating about it is this:
"These features include modifying the prompts and responses heard by the user based on the user's experience history with the voice application and ``remembering'' when a user last interacted with the application and what the user was doing (whether within one call-in session or over several calls)."
If anyone here knows of any other company that currently incorporates -- much less has a patent on -- a VUI that "remembers" past conversations and then responds, I'd love to hear about it. I recall Dr. M discussing this back in March, and commenting that GMGC was doing a lot of esoteric R&D in this area. A VR system that "remembers" previous discussions/actions and then later responds accordingly would seem to be getting about as close to normal human interaction as technological feasible, and should have a very positive influence on users' experience with -- and acceptance levels of -- voice recognition in a variety of applications (but it certainly wouldn't be appropriate or needed in many other applications).
For example, let's say that while requesting an email be read to him, a user casually mentioned to "Mary" (who had asked him how he was doing) that he was fine but that his wife was in the hospital. Then a week or two later, when logging onto the system, Mary says "Good Morning, John . . . what can I do for you today? And by the way, how's your wife doing?"
I may be naive, but I think this is pretty impressive stuff, and with years of experience GMGC seems to have a leg up on the competition in potentially perfecting/commercializing this type of voice application, patent-protected or not. All of which says nothing about where the stock is going near term, but to me it's just another example of the company's expertise and potential.
Any comments/rebuttals/clarifications are always welcome . . . I'm here to learn.
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