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Emantix Awarded Patent for Managing Contextual Information
Friday, September 04, 2009
Annandale, VA -- Emantix, an enterprise productivity software company, today announced that David Ian Forbes, Emantix founder and CEO, has been awarded United States Patent #7,584,161, titled "Software System for Managing Information in Context."
The new patent relates to a method for contextual interaction with information. A key innovation in the patent is the complete reinvention of traditional software interfaces and tool sets to deliver better user interaction and interface usability. The system also provides novel methods for structuring and searching metadata, text and digital media.
"This patent reinforces my ongoing commitment to honest and useful innovation, looking at things in non-traditional but commercially viable ways," stated Mr. Forbes, the primary inventor on the patent. "Certainly, this patent yields benefits from the ideas protected, but perhaps of even greater value are the lessons learned in successfully bringing a disruptive technology to market."
The system described in the patent is commercially available today. Mr. Forbes is also primary inventor on two additional patents pending, both related to the Emantix software platform.
About Emantix
Emantix (www.emantix.com) delivers an easy-to-implement, innovative way to make content itself the primary interface for improving productivity – every single word or combination of words, in any kind of content, becomes clickable, so people can instantly connect to the best information, experts and media.
The Emantix technology platform provides enterprises, search vendors and publishers with an automated, on-demand method for extracting definitions, context and relevance from information. This provides a superior user experience for retrieving and navigating relevant and meaningful information.
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