AccessLine Technologies announces licensing of patent to Ericsson.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 1996--AccessLine Technologies, the originator of the One Person, One Number(r) concept, announced today that it has completed the licensing of one of its new international patents to Ericsson Telecom AB for use in deploying a universal personal telecommunications (UPT) product in Australia.

The product Ericsson will be offering incorporates certain call routing features, patented to AccessLine, which are necessary to fulfill the service concept definition of UPT. The patent is the first patent granted of a series of patents pending for AccessLine in international markets.

AccessLine's first international patent issued in Australia and the company is expecting the issuance of similar patents in Europe and Asia. The international patents are added to the company's United States patents already issued, as well as several new patents the company expects to issue in the United States shortly.

The UPT/single number concept is now becoming accepted as the foundation from which telecommunications services of the future will spring. AccessLine was the pioneer of the technology that brought the concept to reality over the last decade. The principal characteristic of UPT is that it offers personal mobility services through a single number. This means that users can move from one phone to another, whether the phone is a traditional wired phone or a wireless phone, on a global basis and have the ability to make and receive calls and access other telecommunications services when and where they choose.

Additional features give users control of their calls and information, so they receive only the calls and information they want. The original AccessLine technology was based on this concept and is described in the first AccessLine patents, applied for in 1984. The AccessLine patents and patents pending encompass hundreds of claims and are part of the reason for AccessLine's lead in the enhanced personal communications services market.

"These patents are the culmination of many years' work," commented Bob Fuller, the inventor of the AccessLine technology. "It is extremely gratifying now to see the One Person, One Number concept taking hold around the world. The fact that Ericsson, the market leader in supplying telecommunications infrastructure equipment worldwide to wireless operators, has made the decision to license some of AccessLine's core technology is significant for AccessLine and Ericsson, and gives Ericsson a lead over other vendors."

AccessLine is beginning to offer its patents to the industry for licensing and has now licensed vendors serving both the telecommunications networks marketplace and the customer premises equipment (CPE) marketplace.

The patent that Ericsson has licensed covers features which allow subscribers to route calls from one location to another and to change the routing either automatically based on the user's personal profile, including a time-of-day/day-of-week schedule, or manually, and allow callers to either choose to speak directly with the subscriber or choose other options.

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Note to editors: One Person, One Number(r) is a registered service mark of AccessLine Technologies Inc. in the United States and Canada, and a service mark of AccessLine Technologies Inc. in other countries.

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