ACCESSLINE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY AWARDED PATENT PROTECTION.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 1995--AccessLine Technologies announced today that its AccessLine System has been awarded patent protection (United Stated Patent No. 5,375,161). The company has received the second of multiple patents it has applied for covering many aspects of its Intelligent Network Service Node which delivers a suite of One Person, One Number services. The company has been developing the technology over 11 years and was first in the industry to deploy single number services. The company's comprehensive IN software applications have been commercially available in the telecommunications marketplace for six years. The AccessLine System is an integrated enhanced services platform which gives a subscriber a single telephone number to reach him or her at any location. When the One Person, One Number service was conceived by AccessLine, it engendered a paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. in the telecommunications industry -- phone numbers were no longer attached to a place or a particular piece of hardware. The patent received covers many of the features which allow subscribers to route calls from one location to another and to change the routing manually or automatically based on 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: schedule, and allow callers to select the option of speaking directly to the subscribers, to someone else in their office, or to leave a voice mail message. The patent has 50 claims. The One Person, One Number technology was invented in 1983 by Robert M. Fuller, now chairman of AccessLine; patents were applied for in 1984. "These patents ratify AccessLine's leadership position and differentiate us in the PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. marketplace," said Fuller. "We developed the concept of attaching a telephone number to a person rather than a place over 12 years ago, and we are now extremely gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to receive this recognition and acknowledgment." Today, when many companies are trying to duplicate the features and functions of the AccessLine System, sometimes with expensive hardware solutions, the original single number concept of AccessLine, which transcends hardware, is gaining notice. "We are now working on new developments which will be as exciting as the original concepts now under patent," said Fuller. "We have several pending applications for enhancements which will make the services more automatic and easier to use by the mass market, just in time for PCS." The patent received today is the second received by AccessLine since the technology was invented. The award of this patent and the anticipated award of patents pending provide protection to AccessLine's licensees in their provision of state-of-the-art PCS services to their customers and adds value to the PCS marketplace. In addition to patents, the company also owns service marks which reflect the central ideals of PCS. These service marks include One Person, One Number, The Phone Number Assigned to People Not Places, One Number to Reach Me Anywhere, the Smart Number and Personal AccessLine. The products of the company are also marketed in some areas under the names ContactLine and PrimeLine. AccessLine Technologies has been developing applications for the personal communications marketplace and partnering with telephone and wireless companies to deliver these services to mobile professionals. The market is growing rapidly. "The market for individual services, single number access, and call control capabilities is beginning to explode," said Kimberly Tassin, spokesperson for AccessLine. "With the allocation by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. of new 500 numbers last year and the auctioning of additional spectrum underway, the PCS market will soon be in full bloom full bloom the stage of a crop when two-thirds of the plants are in flower; the crop is mature. ." The patented AccessLine technology fits the vision of personal communications services See PCS. and can make 500 numbers and PCS networks operate as planned. The company has also applied for international patent protection. About AccessLine Technologies AccessLine Technologies Inc., headquartered in Bellevue, is the originator of the One Person, One Number concept and the developer of the platform which delivers this concept to customers. AccessLine has installed systems in over 30 markets of 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. and Europe. Licensees include Ameritech Cellular Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC was the first company in the United States to provide cellular mobile phone service to the general public. Cell service became publicly available in Chicago on October 13, 1983. , Bell Atlantic Mobile, U S WEST NewVector, Southern New England Telephone The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNET by its customers) started operations on January 27, 1878 as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. It was the founder of the first telephone exchange, as well as the world's first telephone book. , Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, BC TEL TEL Telephone TEL Telegram TEL Telugu (langauge) TEL Terrorist Exclusion List TEL Technology-Enhanced Learning TEL Transporter-Erector-Launcher TEL Tetra-Ethyl Lead TEL Team Deutsche Telekom Mobility, ED TEL Mobility, AGT AGT antiglobulin test. Mobility, Telia AB of Sweden, and Motorola Inc. -0- Note to Editors: AccessLine; AccessLine System; The Phone Number Assigned to People Not Places, One Number to Reach Me Anywhere, Smart Number, and One Person, One Number are registered service marks of AccessLine Technologies Inc. CONTACT: AccessLine Technologies, Bellevue, Wash. Kimberly Tassin, 206/654-1001 |
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