Telecom disaster firm lands first patent

Monday, Nov. 5, 2007

Telecom disaster firm lands first patent

TeleContinuity of Rockville helps clients recover from outages

by Steve Monroe | Staff Writer

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Rockville telecommunications company TeleContinuity has been awarded its first U.S. patent for its lead product, a system to provide survivable telecommunications services in the event of disasters.

TeleContinuity, which recently offered its system free of charge for a limited time to organizations whose operations were affected by last month’s wildfires in Southern California, was issued patent number 7,289,493 titled ‘‘System And Method For Providing Location Independent Voice Communications Continuity Through Disasters.”

The technology provided by TeleContinuity provides a survivable backup system to maintain telephone communications during outages or disruptions.

Founded in the wake of the 2001 jetliner attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, TeleContinuity restores incoming telephone service to clients within minutes of telecommunication outages from, natural disaster, PBX failure, fire, terror attack or building evacuation.

TeleContinuity has contracts with federal government agencies such as the Department of Defense, Department of Treasury and Army Corps of Engineers as well as private-sector investment management clients such as Barclays Bank, Merrill Lynch and Capital Source of Bethesda.

‘‘The issuance of the first patent in our portfolio of technology is a significant milestone for the company,” said Raul Vera, TeleContinuity ‘s chief technical officer, in a statement.

Executive Vice President Michael Rosenberg said the company is expanding its marketing reach overseas while continuing to market to domestic customers.

‘‘We have clients pushing us to go global, and we have a client in Japan,” said Rosenberg, ‘‘So we have a plan to expand to other countries based on our business model.”