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G.723.1/A Licensing Pricing (in $US)
Coverings Patents for AudioCodes, Cisco, DSP Group, France Telecom,
NTT, University of Sherbrooke
| Licensing Options |
Fees and Royalties |
| End Product Manufacturers Option |
| (1) Paid-up for full use for Manufacturers of end products |
$1,217,000 |
(1.1) Paid-up With
Payment schedule
for full use |
upon signing of the licensing agreement |
$669,000 |
| within 12 months |
$335,000 |
| within 24 months |
$335,000 |
| Chipset Manufacturers Option |
| (2) Paid-up for full use for chipset Manufacturers |
$4,867,000 |
(2.1) Paid-up With
Payment schedule |
upon signing of the licensing agreement |
$2,677,000 |
| within 12 months |
$1,460,000 |
| within 24 months |
$1,217,000 |
| Single Application Option |
(3) Paid up - single Application Category - Host based
(e.g. PC, PDA, Workstation) |
$175,000 |
(3.1) Paid-up With
Payment schedule |
upon signing of the licensing agreement |
$91,500 |
| within 12 months |
$91,500 |
| within 24 months |
$36,500 |
(3.2) Royalty based- single
Application category |
prepaid royalties upon signing of the licensing agreement |
$30,500 |
| PLUS per unit for the first 100K |
$0.49 |
| Thereafter per unit |
$0.36 |
| Server Based Application Option |
4) Royalty based
for server class applications |
Upfront fee upon signing of the licensing agreement (not refundable and not applicable to royalties) |
$30,500 |
PLUS
a per channel
royalty schedule |
# of channels |
Per Channel Royalty |
| 0-100K |
$1.78 |
| 100K - 500K |
$1.59 |
| 500K - 1M |
$1.22 |
| 1M - 3M |
$0.98 |
| 3M - 5M |
$0.85 |
| 5M - 10M |
$0.62 |
| + 10M |
$0.42 |
| Client Based Application Option |
(5) Royalty based for
client applications.
Full use (all product families) |
prepaid royalties upon signing the license agreement |
$61,000 |
PLUS unit
royalty schedule |
# of Units |
Per Unit Royalty |
| 0-100K |
$0.73 |
| 100K - 500K |
$0.61 |
| 500K - 1M |
$0.49 |
| +1M |
$0.36 |
| Client Decoder Option |
(6) Royalty based for
Client decoder Single use
(one product family) |
prepaid royalties upon signing the agreement |
$36,800 |
PLUS a per
channel royalty schedule |
# of Units |
Per Unit Royalty |
| 0-100K |
$0.49 |
| 100K - 500K |
$0.37 |
| 500K - 1M |
$0.25 |
| +1M |
$0.12 |
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G.723.1 Patents Licensed
| Organization: |
France Telecom/France Telecom Research and Development Center |
| Patent Title: |
Procédé de codage de la parole à prédiction linéaire et excitation par codes algébriques |
| Patent Number: |
INPI 95 00133 (appl no.) |
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| Organization: |
France Telecom/France Telecom Research and Development Center |
| Patent Title: |
Procédé et dispositif de création d'un bruit de confort dans un systéme de transmission numérique de parole |
| Patent Number: |
INPI 95 12039 |
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| Organization: |
Université de Sherbrooke |
| Patent Title: |
Dynamic codebook for efficient speech coding based on algebraic codes |
| Patent Number: |
5 444 816 |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Sound synthesizer |
| Patent Number: |
4 393 272 |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Speech coding and decoding method using adaptive and random codebooks |
| Patent Number: |
5 396 576 |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Speech coding method and apparatus for the same |
| Patent Number: |
93 401 656.9 |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
All-pole digital filter |
| Patent Number: |
1 494 819 |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Speech coding method |
| Patent Number: |
5-70534 (appl. no.) |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Speech coding-decoding method |
| Patent Number: |
3-117646 (appl. no.) |
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| Organization: |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
| Patent Title: |
Encoding-decoding method for speech excitation signals |
| Patent Number: |
3-167124 |
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| Organization: |
ACL/DSP Group Inc |
| Patent Title: |
A pitch post filter |
| Patent Number: |
5 544 278 |
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| Organization: |
ACL/DSP Group Inc |
| Patent Title: |
A multi-pulse analysis speech processing system and method |
| Patent Number: |
5 568 588 |
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| Organization: |
BTG USA Inc (Purchased by Cisco Systems) |
| Patent Title: |
Vector excitation speech or audio coder for transmission of storage |
| Patent Number: |
4 868 867 |
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