TeleCommunication Systems Receives 12 US Patents

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.

today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued TCS 12 patents during the third quarter of 2012. These patents describe innovations in wireless data, navigation, public safety, messaging, mobile location and secure communications and further strengthen these areas of TCS' intellectual property. The USPTO issued one patent to TCS related to wireless data: "System For An Open Architecture Development Platform With Centralized Synchronization" (U.S. Patent 8,224,886) This key wireless data patent describes methods by which a wireless device can be remotely managed, so that it has only the approved applications and data on the device. Mobile Device Management (MDM) has become an important part of the services that a wireless operator or wirelessly-enabled enterprise wish to provide to ensure that the devices provided to that environment's users have the allowed applications on the device and are synchronized with an approved, centrally-managed repository. The USPTO issued two patents to TCS related to navigation: "Stateful, Double-Buffered Dynamic Navigation Voice Prompting" (U.S. Patent 8,224,572) "Image Tile Server" (U.S. Patent 8,244,770) The 8,224,572 key patent describes a navigation system and