FusionOne Awarded Patent for Mobile Backup and Sync

FusionOne, the leading provider of mobile content portability solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted FusionOne a new patent for its revolutionary development on mobile content synchronization technology. Patent No. 7,505,762, titled “Wireless Telephone Data Backup System”, was granted on March 17, acknowledging FusionOne’s pioneering work in the mobile industry.

This groundbreaking patent is for the backup, transfer and restoration of a user’s personal information stored in any mobile telephone having data storage capabilities. The patent incorporates all major features essential to a mobile content portability solution, including an account transfer interface, the transfer and restore process itself, scheduling and automatic sync of changes at regular intervals, and a phone and web interface for managing content and changes.

“FusionOne has pioneered the development of products that sync content between applications,” said John Malloy, Co-Founder and General Partner, BlueRun Ventures. “Extending from the handset is essential to the success of new and innovative mobile services, and this patent is an important milestone towards that goal.”

“FusionOne is pleased to have been awarded this important patent,” said Mike Mulica, CEO of FusionOne. “The ability to extract mobile content from the phone and make that content available to subscribers and internet applications is what FusionOne has been all about for the past decade. The technology covered by this patent further asserts FusionOne’s leadership in mobile content transfer.”

This new patent further adds to FusionOne’s intellectual property portfolio of more than 60 issued and pending patents related to mobile content transfer technology.

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