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TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.: TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent for Multi-Carrier Messaging Gateway

^{Published on 2009-04-14 06:42:55, Last Modified on 2009-11-03 07:58:50 - Market Wire}
 

ANNAPOLIS, MD--(Marketwire - April 14, 2009) - TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: [ TSYS ]), a leading provider of wireless communications technology, today announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent number 7,519,654 for "Web Gateway Multi-Carrier Support."

The patent describes a means for routing messages between carriers using a wireless internet gateway that can handle a variety of different message formats (such as SMS, MMS, e-mails and instant messaging) for each carrier through the use of a carrier format table. Messages are sent to the destination carrier using the appropriate protocol format of the receiving carrier. The invention allows for an easily configurable and changeable protocol format table to be updated as carriers are added and deleted and as protocols change.

"TCS has long recognized the role that would be needed for managing the broad range of messaging technologies," said Drew Morin, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for TCS. "We understood that the carrier's subscribers would want to send such messages to other wireless subscribers who use other carrier networks. TCS' invention, for which a patent application was filed in 2000, is well suited to the current market conditions where e-mail, text, multimedia, and instant messages are all being sent by wireless users from one carrier to other users on different carriers around the globe."

TCS now holds 70 patents with 212 applications pending.

About the patent

The "Web Gateway Multi-Carrier Support" patent describes a method and apparatus for receiving messages from users of a carrier that are routed via the internet to a different destination carrier. A dynamically updateable carrier message format table is used to handle a variety of message formats that may be used by destination carriers. A destination interface routes the messages to the destination carrier gateways. Messages can be emails, text messages, multimedia messages or instant messages.

About TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: [ TSYS ]) engineers and delivers highly reliable wireless communications technology. TCS is a leader in wireless text messaging and location-based technology, including E9-1-1 services and commercial applications like navigation that use the precise location of a wireless device, and secure satellite-based communications systems and services. Customers include leading wireless and VoIP carriers around the world, cable MSOs, automotive telematics vendors, and agencies of the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security. TCS is one of six primary vendors on a $5 billion Army Worldwide Satellite Systems Contract vehicle. For more information, visit [ www.telecomsys.com ].

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and are based upon TCS' current expectations and assumptions that if incorrect would cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Risks include without limitation those detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, or otherwise.