Telelogue Announces Directory Assistance Automation Patent Awards

July, 2003 -- Telelogue, Inc., a leading provider of voice automated directory assistance to telecommunications service providers, today announced that it has received notification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that certain of its patent applications have been examined and are allowed for issuance upon processing of the applicable patent issuance fees.

Telelogue has filed patents broadly covering several independent areas each of which is essential to the automation of directory assistance, including among others (1) the methodology by which the listing database is searched, (2) the methodology of preprocessing directory assistance listings to make them suitable for use in a speech automated system and (3) the methodology for updating the directory assistance database on a nightly basis.

"The grant of these patents is centrally important to Telelogue not only to defend our technology but also to leverage offensively in the marketplace," said Robert W. Burke, Telelogue's Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that any speech automated directory assistance solution sufficient to satisfy the minimum customer requirements will require either a license from us under one or more of our patents or many years of research and development in search of a satisfactory alternative solution."

About Telelogue
Telelogue is the first and only company with deployed systems that provide automation for all 140+ million Directory Assistance (DA) listings in the U.S. In these deployments, Telelogue is achieving unprecedented rates of automation, which combined with the savings from ‘whisper' and ‘screen fill' provide customers with compelling savings for DA calls. Telelogue offers both in-network and hosted options and includes solutions for ordinary course DA and for handling calls during service disruption.

See Telelogue's web site at www.telelogue.com.




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