Digital Fountain Expands into Mobile Data Broadcasting; Leaders Honda and XM to Incorporate Company's Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004 Digital Fountain, a supplier of patented network transport software, today announced its growth into the mobile data broadcast market and the licensing of its patented Meta-Content technology. Honda and XM have entered into agreements with Digital Fountain and intend to incorporate the company's technology into future mobile broadcast applications. This represents a significant milestone in the market adoption for the company's unique reliable communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry , which has also been recently adopted in Japan for delivering perfect quality video over packet networks. Meta-Content Technology for Mobile Broadcast Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology solves several otherwise intractable intractable /in·trac·ta·ble/ (in-trak´tah-b'l) resistant to cure, relief, or control. in·trac·ta·ble adj. 1. Difficult to manage or govern; stubborn. 2. problems in broadcasting large amounts of data to a large universe of receivers. For example, with automobiles, the duration and time that the car will be in operation is impossible to predict or control, making it impossible to synchronize See synchronization. broadcast reception among cars. In normal usage scenarios, broadcasts to automobiles are frequently interrupted and are subject to numerous forms of loss. With Meta-Content, rather than sending the original data, a precise mathematical "recipe" for the data is sent. Every Meta-Content packet is of equal information value and every one is unique. Cars and other mobile receivers need only collect any set of packets approximately equal in length to the original data package, to instantly and perfectly recreate the original data. Because there is no need to worry about which packets any particular receiver collects, the data is received quickly and reassembled accurately, even amidst intermittent reception schedules and frequent broadcast interruptions. "With more than one million subscribers, XM Satellite Radio is the leading satellite radio entertainment service. We expect that data services will be an important element of our business in the future. Digital Fountain's technology will help us make that happen," said Dr. Stell Patsiokas, Executive Vice President Technology and Engineering, XM Radio. "Broadcast over wireless is going to become a big market. Digital Fountain has a great technology to minimize the transmission while guaranteeing delivery," said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. principal analyst with MobileTrax. Applications and Benefits Across the automotive, satellite broadcast and cellular industries, there are many new applications being developed for consumers and businesses. In the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. , there is interest in offering new entertainment services that will deliver music to in-dash players, videos and movies to back-seat systems, updates to GPS-based navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. databases and other popular types of data, software and content. In the cellular industry, handheld smartphones are evolving to become multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective communications, entertainment and productivity devices. Here too, it is widely recognized that broadcasting popular content is far more economical than having millions of subscribers individually download large files. With Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology, service providers can broadcast any type of data over any type of network in the shortest possible time without any need to coordinate the receiving schedules of individual devices. The technology is exceptionally efficient, operating with ease on low-power battery-operated devices. Uniquely, the technology is largely unaffected by packet loss, works on any size data and at any data rate. "Honda and XM are widely regarded innovators innovators people who will try new things. early innovators important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems. and leaders who are known to have extraordinarily demanding standards," said Charlie Oppenheimer, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Digital Fountain. "Having this kind of support on top of the success we are enjoying for live and on-demand video is simply outstanding and is validation of our successful business strategy." Research estimates indicate that the automotive telematics Originally coined to mean the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cellphones, wireless communications and automatic driving assistance systems all come under the industry is expected to grow to more than $30 Billion by 2008, and Digital Fountain technology enables new business models for automakers and service providers. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain's patented Meta-Content technology provides perfect communications over imperfect networks. The company licenses its breakthrough network transport technology to leading companies around the world. Digital Fountain's Meta-Content technology is used today in a variety of enterprise, military and consumer devices and applications. Leading organizations including Honda, XM Satellite Radio, Technicolor, Warner Brothers Warner Brothers (b. Eichelbaums) movie executives; Harry (Morris) (1881–1958), born in Krasnashiltz, Poland; Albert (1884–1967), born in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel (1887–1927), born in Baltimore, Md. , PeopleSoft, Altera, Sumitomo Electric Networks, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval and the United States military are using and building Meta-Content powered systems. |
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