Accordent Recognized For Pioneering a Core Process in Creation of Rich Media Communications

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., December 6, 2007 – Accordent Technologies, Inc., a leader in rich media communications, today announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has granted Accordent a patent related to the creation of synchronized rich media presentations that include streaming media and a wide array of supplemental graphical and interactive information.

United States Patent number 7,299,289 was originally filed on April 28, 2000 and applies to key components of, among other products, the Accordent Capture Station™, Accordent PresenterPRO™, and Accordent PresenterPLUS™.

"Accordent is among the pioneers in developing leading-edge solutions for integrating multimedia into day to day business communications," said Steve Vonder Haar, research director, Interactive Media Strategies (IMS). "This patent award reaffirms the company's standing as one of the leaders in the enterprise multimedia sector – a market IMS projects will grow to $1.1 billion by 2011."

"We feel that this patent accurately represents contributions that Accordent has made in the field of online communications. I'm thrilled for our CTO, Mike Lorenz, and his team of engineers, as they deserve to be recognized for their innovations in the field. I am also elated that, after a seven year prosecution process, that the USPTO has recognized Accordent as being the first in a field that continues to grow in size and importance," said Mike Newman, Accordent CEO.

The patent represents strong reinforcement of Accordent's record of innovation, evidenced most recently by its "first-in-class" Accordent Media Management System™, the industry's most advanced management and search platform that enables organizations to manage and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia communications programs. The new solutions also include Accordent Engage™, an enhanced audio webcasting solution that enables large organizations to extend online presentation and conferencing capabilities enterprise-wide using internal network resources instead of costly outsourced conferencing services.

The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets. The company's rich media creation products include its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO™, a live and on-demand webcasting solution with interactive features, such as polling, surveys and moderated Q&A; the Accordent Capture Station, an easy-to-use, room-based appliance that enables anyone to webcast and record high-value presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms; and Accordent Engage a behind-the-firewall, enhanced audio webcasting system that enables multimedia webcasting from the desktop. The company’s media management platform is the Accordent Media Management System, the first centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia communications - including archived web- and video-conferences.

About Accordent Technologies, Inc.
Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys, JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent’s exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com.

Accordent Capture Station, Accordent PresenterPRO, Accordent Engage and Accordent Media Management System are trademarks of Accordent Technologies. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

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Darian Germain
Accordent Technologies
703-608-3404

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