Wednesday February 21, 8:31 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Tumbleweed Granted Patent for Private URLs in Secure Document Delivery and Authentication
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001--Tumbleweed Communications Corp.® (NASDAQ:TMWD - news), a leading provider of mission critical messaging solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the company patent no. 6,192,407, which protects private, trackable URLs for directed document delivery. The private URL technology is included in Tumbleweed Integrated Messaging Exchange(TM) (IME(TM)) a platform and set of applications for creating secure communications channels between a business and its customers, partners, and suppliers.
Tumbleweed IME generates a private URL for each secure delivery. The private URL that IME creates is unique, tied to the sender of the package or transaction, to the content being sent, and to the intended recipient. In practice, the private URL binds the recipient's e-mail identity to the content being sent, assuring that the information being sent is delivered only to the intended recipient. The private URL also binds a recipient's e-mail identity to an on-line transaction, facilitating authentication for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business online commerce.
``This private URL patent protects the foundation of Tumbleweed's secure communications products and technologies,'' said Jean-Christophe Bandini, chief technology officer, Tumbleweed Communications Corp. ``The private URL technology enables e-mail to play the central role in secure communications and commerce by binding a recipient's identity to either content or a transaction.''
The patent application was filed in April 1997. |
