Kirusa granted Voice SMS patent

Patent strengthens Kirusa's intellectual property and industry leadership in Voice SMS

Thursday, March 15, 2007:  New Providence, New Jersey - Kirusa, a leading mobile value added services provider based in New Jersey, USA announced that it has been granted a patent on its Voice SMS technology (patent number 7,184,786) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The granted patent, filed in 2003, covers several aspects of the Voice SMS technology invented by Kirusa that form the foundation of its Voice SMS product offerings.

For Kirusa’s customers, the patent provides the basis for Voice SMS, an innovative service that has revolutionized communication between individuals by allowing them to send short voice messages by speaking, just as they send short text messages by typing. The ease-of-use inherent in Kirusa’s Voice SMS paves the way for wide scale adoption of this service, not seen since the success of text SMS.

Discussing this important new patent, Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, Founder and CEO, said, “Our vision for Kirusa can be summed up in one word – ‘Innovation’. Kirusa is innovating technologies that make a difference to the lives of people, in the way they communicate, and in the way they interact with each other.”

Dr. David Berkley, Chief Scientist of Kirusa, said, “We believe this is the first patent on Voice SMS issued in the United States, and is a significant milestone for Kirusa. The invention of Voice SMS involved brainstorming by some of Kirusa’s best technical minds. These inventors had a prime objective of making the basic Voice SMS concept practical and easy to use for mobile subscribers.”

The patent granted to Kirusa covers several important capabilities Kirusa brings to Voice SMS, including Direct Listen™ technology that allows users to directly access and reply to a voice message without any intervening login or clumsy navigation. Other important claims cover convergence with MMS, and the sending of pre-recorded messages (e.g. a 'standard' birthday greeting). Kirusa has also disclosed use of Voice SMS for other purposes such as Voicemail notification and video messaging in this patent.

About Kirusa's Voice SMS solution - KV.SMS

KV.SMS™ enables mobile users to send SMS messages with voice and reply to SMS messages with voice. The solution is based on Kirusa's patented (U.S. Patent 7,184,786) and patent pending technologies, and works on all handsets and networks. KV.SMS features the industry's most intuitive user interface as well as many traffic-stimulating features, such as Direct Listen™ for direct access and reply to messages, Speed Codes™ for quickly sending messages using codes, group messaging, voice information services, and international Voice SMS. KV.SMS can be deployed in a matter of weeks, and its fast user adoption has led to explosive revenue growth for Kirusa's customers. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS’, ‘Direct Listen’, and ‘Speed Codes’ are trademarks of Kirusa, Inc.

About Kirusa

Kirusa is one of the leading global developers of Mobile Social Media and Value Added Services enabling mobile subscribers to reach out to their family and friends. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS service, the world’s most advanced Voice SMS solution, used by over 30 carriers around the world. Kirusa has pioneered a suite of social media applications that facilitate mobile subscribers to interact through voice, including the Call-n-Tweet application which helps users update their Twitter status using voice. Kirusa provides an open platform with APIs to enable third parties to offer mobile applications services to mobile subscribers. Used by mobile subscribers millions of times daily, Kirusa solutions are built on its patented and patent pending technology and its highly reliable and scalable open multimodal platform. Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology companies by Silicon India, and one of top 25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in three continents. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS,’ is a trademark of Kirusa, Inc.

For more information visit: www.kirusa.com.

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