Hilgraeve Awarded Patent on Internet Technology; Revolutionary Solution Extends Internet Connectivity.MONROE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1999-- The US Patent Office has just awarded a patent to Hilgraeve Inc. for new technology that lets computer users connect through the Internet, even to people who access the Internet by modem and aren't presently online. Internet Rendezvous stands to increase the booming popularity of Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. , collaboration and conferencing, and other real-time connectivity applications by eliminating the requirement that users already be online to connect to one another. With Internet Rendezvous, applications like Instant Messaging and Internet telephony can at last vie with the telephone as an always-available means of communication. Until now, usefulness of such applications was limited to occasions when all the parties happen to be online. Internet Rendezvous overcomes this barrier by enabling one computer to "invite" another to meet online. Internet Rendezvous places a 3-second call directly to the other computer through telephone lines, to trigger the automatic Internet connection process. Hilgraeve is offering to license Internet Rendezvous to software manufacturers whose products can benefit from this exciting new technology. For more information, contact Hilgraeve sales at (734) 243-0576. Developers and individual users wishing to experience Internet Rendezvous can download DropChute Pro or DropChute Enterprise from Hilgraeve's Web site, www.hilgraeve.com. Internet Rendezvous premiered in Hilgraeve's DropChute instant file delivery software in 1998, and is already used by many customers to eliminate dependence on costly long-distance calls. For instance, property development and management company, FirstWorthing, uses DropChute Enterprise to transfer property management data nightly between their 42 multifamily properties and their Dallas-based corporate office. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IS Director Brian Wood, Internet Rendezvous is one of many innovative advantages that caused them to select DropChute. "Prior to DropChute, we used a DOS-based application that required our properties to connect with the corporate office via long-distance modem calls -- a big expense for our out of town properties," said Wood. "Thanks to Internet Rendezvous, our corporate office can now pick up files through the Internet at night, even from unattended offices that have only a dial-up connection to the Internet." FirstWorthing says DropChute saves them about $1,100 per month in phone charges. Hilgraeve is a leading solution provider and strategic ally in meeting mission-critical communication needs of business. Its DropChute family of instant file delivery software provides the easiest, fastest, and most secure way to send files through the Internet, intranets or modems. The company's popular HyperACCESS product line has won top awards from every major PC publication in comparisons against products such as Procomm Plus An earlier communications program for Windows from Quarterdeck that supported a wide number of protocols and terminals. Procomm was originally developed for DOS by Datastorm Technologies and was also available as a shareware program, which was very popular. . Microsoft and IBM Many people are too new to the computer industry to remember that IBM once occupied the lofty position that Microsoft currently enjoys. Today, it's a Microsoft versus The Rest of the World computer industry. Yesterday, it was IBM versus everybody else. both include entry-level communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems made by Hilgraeve with their operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. : IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) includes HyperACCESS Lite with OS/2 Warp The client version of the OS/2 operating system. It includes peer-to-peer networking, fax and communications programs, multimedia viewing and editing applications and IBM Works (word processing, spreadsheet, database and other office tools). Introduced in late 1994 as Version 3. ; Microsoft includes HyperTerminal with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. DropChute, Internet Rendezvous, HyperTerminal and HyperACCESS are trademarks of Hilgraeve Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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