@Road Expands Its Intellectual Property Portfolio with Three Newly Issued U.S. Patents; @Road Now Holds 20 Patents with More Pen
February 16 2006 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
@Road(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:ARDI), a global provider of next-generation
solutions for Mobile Resource Management (MRM), today announced
that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) 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 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 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 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. 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, location-based technologies, transaction processing
and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure,
scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered
in on-demand software 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,
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 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 dated March 15, 2005, in
the @Road Report on Form 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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