Abstract:
With the advent of unified communications capabilities, we need to expand those
primitive capabilities and integrate them with the power of the multimedia Internet. Users
still have to deal with today's realities of multiple message mailboxes, i.e., voicemail,
business email, personal email, etc., which will require a higher level of flexible control
to manage both accessibility and the cross-modal interfaces. Therefore, its time to move
forward, and we don't mean just consolidating message storage: we mean consolidating
personalized user information and control functions for dynamic use across all forms of
access to and from an individual user for conversational connections and messaging
exchanges.
lhe project is about the development of Online Personal Assistant. It is like a portal. The
term portal is all the rage these days, whether it is used for the access and search of the
World Wide Web for anything and everything, or for customers, B-to-B partners, or
employees to access information from an enterprise Web site. The publishing world has
transformed its magazines into Web-based portals, for both editorial content and links to
advertisers. Voice portals cover all of the above applications for speech-based telephone
access, particularly from mobile phones. What we need to do now is define the crossmedia
Personal Communications Portal for individual users. This will give us a more
practical image of the functionality and user interfaces for converged unified
communications.
