@Road Expands Its Intellectual Property Portfolio with Three Newly Issued U.S. Patents; @Road Now Holds 20 Patents with More Pending around the Globe.FREMONT, Calif. -- @Road(R), Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a global provider of next-generation solutions for Mobile Resource Management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), today announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO USPTO abbr. United States Patent and Trademark Office ) has recently issued the Company three new patents covering innovative MRM technology and services. The first patent covers a system and method for "Voice Interaction for Location-Relevant Mobile Resource Management." While the second U.S. Patent granted to @Road depicts a method for "Targeted Impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. Arrival Notification of a Wirelessly Connected Location Device." A third U.S. Patent awarded to @Road depicts a "System and Method for Providing a Handheld Unit to a Mobile Position Device." @Road can now claim ownership to 20 issued patents and additional patents pending in jurisdictions around the world. "Building a sound patent portfolio is part of our overall growth strategy that we believe adds considerable value to the company," said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Jolicoeur, @Road chief marketing officer. "It also furthers our goal of maintaining a leadership role in the development of innovative next-generation MRM products and solutions that are designed to help businesses effectively manage their mobile workers and their work while optimizing service delivery." The first newly issued U.S. Patent, No. 6,965,665, covers a system and method for voice interaction for location-relevant mobile resource management. For example, a network server transmits a voice message to a voice device at a mobile unit upon detecting that the mobile unit is within a predetermined pre·de·ter·mine v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines v.tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: distance of a certain location. The network server also receives a voice request for location-relevant information from a user at a mobile unit and transmits responsive location-relevant information to the user as a voice message. The network server may conduct certain actions responsive to voice requests received from users at mobile units. Users may receive information from the server via voice devices even when not located at a mobile unit. In the second newly issued U.S. Patent No. 6,980,131, @Road describes a proprietary method for alerting a designated party when a location enabled vehicle nears a destination or when it leaves a pre-arranged alert area surrounding a location. The alerts can be relayed via an automated telephone message, a pager message, an email message, or any other communication means. The alerts can be used for mercantile deliveries by directing an alert to a customer expecting a delivery or to a site expecting a vehicle for loading or unloading Unloading Selling securities or commodities whose prices are dropping to minimize loss. . The alerts can also automatically activate domestic systems such as home appliances or systems in anticipation of a resident's arrival. U.S. Patent, No. 6,980,812, also awarded to @Road, describes a system and method for facilitating a commercial transaction based on a current location of a mobile customer and a mobile merchant. In one application, the method establishes a wireless link between a server on a wide-area network and a mobile customer, and obtains from the mobile customer a current location by reading automatically from a positioning device associated and located with the customer. Based on the customer location, the server matches the mobile customer, as one party of a commercial transaction, with one or more businesses within a predetermined distance from the current location. This can enable the business concern to act as a counter-party to complete the commercial transaction. This and other location-relevant services can be delivered to the mobile person in a system including a positioning device mounted on a vehicle and an associated-handheld unit that the mobile person can carry around as he or she is outside the vehicle, but in its vicinity. About @Road @Road, Inc. is a leading global provider of solutions designed to automate the management of mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for customers across a variety of industries. @Road delivers Mobile Resource Management solutions in three key areas: Field Force Management, Field Service Management and Field Asset Management. By providing real-time Mobile Resource Management infrastructure integrating wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , location-based technologies, transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered in on-demand software See SaaS. delivery, on-premise or hybrid environments that can seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to real-time corporate data. @Road is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and has a global presence with offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on @Road solutions, visit www.road.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of @Road to develop products based on the patents described in this press release; competition; the ability of @Road to develop and protect new technologies (including the protection of its rights under the patents described in this press release); the risk that one or more of the patents described herein may be found by a court of applicable jurisdiction to be partially or completely invalid; the dependence of @Road on mobile data systems technology, wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others; and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. dated March 15, 2005, in the @Road Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. dated November 8, 2005 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road and the @Road logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of @Road, Inc. |
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