CounterPath Corp. (CPAH.OB) Awarded Patent for Handoff Between Cellular and Internet Protocol Telephony
CounterPath Corporation, a leading provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions, announced that it has been assigned United States patent number 7,502,615 for its technology that enables handoffs between cellular and IP telephony. The newly patented technology allows users to roam between mobile and IP networks seamlessly. "The significance of this patent is far reaching," commented Donovan Jones, President and CEO of CounterPath. "Architecturally we made some technical choices that make handover faster. Also, because we leveraged standards-based protocols like SIP, our technology works with virtually any network architecture and technology without requiring proprietary access points or…