TARGUSinfo Patent Portfolio

Since 1993, TARGUSinfo has pioneered many innovations in the field of intelligent call processing. TARGUSinfo founders, George Moore and Jim Shaffer, have been issued 21 core patents by the US Patent Office.

The core patents, in general, focus on innovations that:

• Capture an identifier such as a telephone number, address, email address or any other identifier.
• Capture this identifier in sub-second real time over a telecommunications network, the Internet or a private network.
• Append attributes such as name, address, behavior scores and other information to these identifiers.
• Deliver the results back in real time for the customer to make a decision.

The patented inventions normally relate to a 1st party identifier which is generally the person or network device initiating a network session or call. This 1st party identifier is matched with attributes that are relevant to the application that the 1st party or network device requires. Examples of these attributes include:

• Latitude and longitude to support Location Based Services.
• Address information to support customer service applications or match address to other customer data.
• Analytics information about the 1st party to help customers to determine how to serve them best.

The TARGUSinfo Patent Portfolio is the ‘3rd rail’ of TARGUSinfo’s success and ability to fulfill over 44 billion transactions to its customers — the other 2 core components are the TARGUSinfo Consumer & Business Repositories and the TARGUSinfo Delivery Network.

To date, the following patents have been issued to TARGUSinfo by the US Patent & Trademark Office.

For further information about the TARGUSinfo Patent Portfolio, please contact:
General Counsel, Patent Licensing and Compliance at patents@targusinfo.com