Vonage Celebrates 100th U.S. Patent

HOLMDEL, N.J., Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG), a leading provider of cloud communications services for businesses and consumers, today was granted its 100^th patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

"Receiving our 100^th patent is a terrific milestone for Vonage," said Chief Executive Officer Alan Masarek. "As a technology company, a key tenet to our success is our commitment to innovate relentlessly. We continue to invest in improving our products, features and technology to better serve our customers, and are diligently protecting these advances through our growing patent portfolio. By supporting these development efforts with a robust intellectual property strategy, we can leverage today's innovations into a strong and sustainable competitive position in the future."

Vonage's 98th, 99th and 100th Patents

Vonage was granted three patents today, marking its 98^th, 99^th and 100^th issued patents:

• U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,203,593 and 9,203,906, each entitled "Systems and Methods for Enabling Data Communications to a Telephony Device," cover algorithms for minimizing battery usage by VoIP communications on mobile devices, by varying the frequency of background signaling between the device and the VoIP provider's network.
• U.S. Pat. No. 9,203,969, "Apparatus and Methods for Integrating Information from Voice Over Internet Calling Systems and Social Networking Systems," provides a system for recommending links between users on a social network based on their communication histories andactivity on a phone system.

Mr. Rogers continued, "The issuance of our 100^th patent marks a stark contrast to a younger Vonage from a decade ago. Our patent portfolio has become a powerful asset that supports the Company's strategy to grow its leadership position in unified communications for business."  

Vonage has been granted 34 new patents to date in 2015. The Company has 240 U.S. patent applications pending, along with many foreign patents and pending applications in jurisdictions worldwide.

About Vonage

Vonage (NYSE: VG) is a leading provider of cloud communications services for businesses and consumers. The Company provides a robust suite of feature-rich business and residential communication solutions that offer flexibility, portability and ease-of-use across multiple devices designed to meet the needs of a wide range of customers. Vonage's portfolio of business products covers the full spectrum of business communications needs, serving single-person companies to those with thousands of employees spread over multiple locations. Vonage provides bring-your-own-broadband (BYOB) cloud products and those that offer carrier-grade reliability and Quality of Service (QoS) across BYOB options and the Company's private, national MPLS IP network, as well as integration with industry-leading CRM and business workflow applications. In 2015, the Company was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as-a-Service, Worldwide, and also earned the Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Leadership Award for Hosted IP and Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) Services. For more information, visit www.vonage.com.

Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey. Vonage^® is a registered trademark of Vonage Marketing LLC, owned by Vonage America Inc.

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