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Red Bend Software Inc. reports it has secured two new U.S. patents related to its software offering for mobile service providers.
The Waltham-based company, which makes software enabling service providers to push firmware updates to subscribers, now holds three patents in the U.S. and eight worldwide.
The new patents cover software that embeds a reverse-update option in every mobile software update, so that users and service providers can uninstall problematic upgrades or downloads and return a software package to its prior status.
A second patent covers software designed to ensure continuity in the upgrade process. If a phone loses power or shuts down during an upgrade, the software is designed to let the process resume at the cut-off point.
“We are protecting our core functionalities in our product. We’re not trying to patent things that are not within the fundamental things that we do,” said CEO Yoram Salinger. “These are very unique to us and are differentiating us from competition in a very nice way. I’m not aware of any of our competitors being able to do reverse update.”
Red Bend’s share of the market for software that allows providers to do firmware-over-the-air updates (FOTA) has increased steadily over the past three years, according to a report out last month from the research group Ovum. The company now controls 53 percent of the market, having taken business away from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Innopath, Ovum reports.
Red Bend closed its fifth round of venture capital financing last April. Backers Greylock and Coral Capital Management put in $10 million, bringing the company’s total investment to $34 million.
An earlier online version of this story misstated Red Bend's existing patents in the U.S. vs. worldwide. The company has three domestic patents and eight worldwide.
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