New Patents Issued for Document-to-Email Technology

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New Patents Issued for Document-to-Email Technology

New Technology Enables Fax and Multifunction Machines to
Send Documents Directly to Email

ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2004 -- E-mate Enterprises announced today
that it has been issued U.S. Patent Numbers 6,693,729 and
6,707,580 covering its document-to-email technology.

E-mate bridges the technology gap between paper and
electronic documents by enabling users to send hardcopy
documents to email recipients by way of their fax or
multi-function machines. These machines are installed in
virtually every office in the world representing an
installed base of well over 100 million devices for which
the E-mate technology is applicable.

"There are only three known ways to send a hardcopy document
directly to an email address - scanning the document and
attaching to an email message, sending via an email capable
multifunction machine, or using the E-mate technology,"
stated Mark Bloomfield, inventor and founder of E-mate.
"E-mate is much less expensive and easier to use than the
other two alternatives. E-mate features can be added to any
of the existing worldwide installed base of fax machines as
well as can be embedded into newly manufactured machines,
making this technology broad-based and very valuable," said
Bloomfield

E-mate technology leverages the scanner of the fax or
multifunction machine for digitizing the document to be sent
to an email recipient. A small, low cost E-mate adapter
enables email addressing capability at the user's machine. 
An E-mate enabled messaging server communicates with this
adapter to receive the data and routing information
necessary to deliver the digital document to the email
destination.  The document is deposited into the recipient's
email mailbox in the same manner as if the document were
emailed from a computer. The recipient views the documents
as an Adobe PDF image. The sender of a hardcopy paper
document now has the same benefits of sending an electronic
document via email.

E-mate is the converse of the universal messaging mailbox, a
"Receiver-Based" solution, whereby the user must own a
special mailbox provisioned to accept documents into their
email. E-mate is a "Sender-Based" technology, whereby any
sender may send a hardcopy document via email to any person
with only an email address.

"The need for an inexpensive, simple means for sending
hardcopy documents utilizing email is easily recognized and
desired by most users," said Michael McLaughlin, a Managing
Director with IPAC, LLC, a national intellectual property
investment and asset management firm. "E-mate technology has
successfully solved this problem and is an innovation ready
for today's market. We are now seeking interested companies
who would like to either license or purchase this technology
for commercialization within their respective markets."

In addition to the newly issued patents, E-mate owns two
other U.S. patents, one Australian patent, with patents
pending both in the U.S. and internationally.

Contact:

Michael McLaughlin
IPAC, LLC
(404) 874-0026
mmclaughlin@ipassetcorp.com

Mark Bloomfield
E-mate Enterprises
(770) 597-4171
mcb@bellsouth.net

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