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Tatara Systems Awarded Key Patent for Voice Convergence02/14/2007 - 3GSM WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – Tatara Systems, a leader in mobile convergence, today announced it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,136,651, entitled "Mobile Services Control Platform Providing Converged Voice Service.” This invention provides the technology basis for enabling any IP-connected device (like a femtocell or a PC) to make or receive voice calls tied to a user’s mobile identity. Tatara implements this patented technology in its industry-leading Mobile Services Convergence PortfolioTM of products for both femtocell convergence and PC convergence solutions.
Tatara’s patented technology enables mobile operators to develop a new set of revenue-generating IP-based communications services by extending existing cellular voice applications to new devices and networks. An example of a service of this type is one that enables end-users to make and receive voice calls through a softphone on a PC (laptop, desktop, ultra-mobile PC, or PDA) over any IP network (including Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and WiMAX) using their mobile phone number. The invention allows mobile operators to offer an internet telephony-like service, while leveraging their key assets – the mobile subscriber’s mobile number. The user benefits by using a single VoIP identity or phone number for all their devices. When someone calls the user’s mobile number, the call can be received on the IP-connected device, if the user chooses to redirect the call. Using the Tatara solution, mobile operators have a unique opportunity to offer a value added service to augment its existing PC-based connectivity services, all without requiring any changes to the mobile operator’s network. This means increased stickiness, increased ARPU, greater mindshare, and a richer service experience. “We are pleased Tatara has received such a core patent related to voice convergence applications,” said Asa Kalavade, CTO of Tatara Systems. “The company takes great pride in our inventions and in their practical application in the products we are building for the attractive and rapidly growing mobile convergence market.” The invention is implemented in Tatara’s recently announced product, the Tatara Convergence Server. The Tatara Convergence Server is the industry’s first SIP-based fixed mobile convergence (FMC) application server to focus on an all-IP approach to core network integration for PC convergence and femtocell convergence. At 3GSM World Congress 2007, please visit Tatara Systems in Stand #1G36. About Tatara Systems Tatara Systems invents, develops, and deploys convergence products for service providers allowing them to offer converged mobile services to their subscribers across the widest base of available end-user devices (i.e. PCs and current mobile phones). Tatara’s fixed mobile convergence (FMC) strategy is focused on femtocell convergence as a powerful FMC approach for mobile operators that takes advantage of current cellular handsets to provide improved coverage and IP-based voice and data services via an economical in-home cellular access point. Tatara’s products also enable the industry’s broadest set of PC convergence solutions, from a mobile broadband service to advanced services, like a PC mobile softphone or intelligent content delivery. Tatara is proud to count some of the industry’s largest operators as customers of its award-winning Tatara Mobile Services Convergence Portfolio™ of products. For more information, visit www.tatarasystems.com |
