Innovation

End user driven technology innovation

Since 2003 Miyowa have been leading the industry with market driven innovations. Understanding the end user needs and desires is in our DNA. We run a regular focus group programme, allowing real users the opportunity to try out new ideas and let our teams know what is important in the real world. We believe that the end user experience is king, and strive to develop innovative technology to meet these needs.

History

2003

Pascal Lorne, CEO, and Francois Colon, CTO, found Miyowa. First product: web-based file sharing community   (known today as a "social network").

 

2005

Miyowa expands its operations and product lines. First trials of mobile Instant Messaging with a PC-like experience.

 

2006

Commercial delivery of MoveMessenger™, the industry's first handset agnostic mobile instant messaging solution.

 

2007

Another industry first: MoveAd™, mobile advertising in the mobile IM and mobile mail experience. Successful   large scale commercial market trials with a major operator and major consumer brands.

 

2008

InTouch 5™ - another industry-first which integrates mobile web applications, such as social networking and   Instant messaging, with the mobile phone address book and advertising capabilities.

 

 

InTouch 5™ - deployed in the World's First Social Mobile, INQ1.

 

2009

Powered with InTouch 5™ INQ1 wins best Mobile Handset 2009.

 

 

Miyowa launches Move™VoiceMail.

 

We believe in protecting our investment and developments, and currently have six patents either pending or granted across Europe, France and the USA. These patents protect essential elements of the mobile messaging and mobile web experience, from client to the server and the entire end-to-end ecosystem.

Since its inception, Miyowa has established a dynamic patent policy, aiming at promoting its innovation worlwide. Currently, 10 patents are pending in Europe and in the U.S.A.

 

Patents

  • A communication network allowing the transfer of information and requests between a mobile phone and several source servers. A method to manage the transfer of information and requests in such a communication network

  • Method for transmitting content to at least one recipient with mobile equipment

  • Method for exchanging requests between the computer application of a mobile terminal and an instantaneous messaging

  • Method and instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals equipped with a virtual presence server allowing an instantaneous messaging session to be managed automatically

  • Method and instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals equipped with a virtual presence server configured to manage different contact lists of a single user

  • A method for filtering messages in a mobile phone IM system

 

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