{"id":155,"date":"2007-10-17T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2007\/10\/17\/another-directory-patent-for-our-com"},"modified":"2007-10-17T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:17:58","slug":"another-directory-patent-for-our-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2007\/10\/17\/another-directory-patent-for-our-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Another private directory services and connectivity patent for our company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to our firm, Context Connect,\u00a0on getting another patent around the private directory and connectivity space &#8211; <span>European Patent #EP1301887 &#8211; A System and Method for Directory Services and eCommerce Across Multi-Provider Networks.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The patent is focused on the ability to \u2018find and connect\u2019 individuals without requiring or needing the actual contact number (e.g., phone number) through a DNS-based contextual platform.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span>The patent extends to directory-based connectivity calls as well as electronic transactions or eCommerce via mobile devices.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The patent describes methods for providing secure connectivity across disparate networks or service providers.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Contextual, DNS-based directory listings are created by consumers or groups, while connectivity to individuals is made without revealing valuable customer information and data \u2013 thus ensuring a more appropriate way of getting connected (self provisioned contextual listings) through a private-based platform (no phone numbers revealed).<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The patent covers directory assistance\/enquiry listings by consumers and merchants that do not reveal actual connectivity details like DNS-like registrar services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to our firm, Context Connect,\u00a0on getting another patent around the private directory and connectivity space &#8211; European Patent #EP1301887 &#8211; A System and Method for Directory Services and eCommerce Across Multi-Provider Networks.\u00a0 The patent is focused on the ability to \u2018find and connect\u2019 individuals without requiring or needing the actual contact number (e.g., phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-context-connect","category-contextual-directory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}