Microsoft Collaborates with Komoxo Mobile

Microsoft Corporation and Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Inc. announce a patent licensing agreement on text-input technologies for mobile devices. The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsoft's statistical language modeling methods into its text-input engine for reduced keypad and touch-screen devices, and deliver new mobile innovations to consumers around the world.

Through the agreement, Microsoft's patented technology will be used in Komoxo's text-input solution to improve appropriate word recommendations and selections during texting and to enhance spell-checking features for mobile devices. For example, many mobile devices combine text and numeric input keys onto one keypad. The technology being licensed by Komoxo will enable devices using the technology to recognize and recommend words faster and with more accuracy based on individual user experience.

"We're very excited about this new collaboration with Microsoft," says Howard Wu, chairman of Komoxo. "We realized that by approaching Microsoft and working directly with Microsoft Research, we could integrate matured and leading text-input technologies with our own innovations in next-generation text-input products. Along with the popularity of touch-screen and reduced keypad mobile devices, consumers around the world deserve one-hand text-input solutions for their own mother language. We believe this new relationship with Microsoft will create a best-in-class solution in the industry. Komoxo's third-generation text-input engine is designed for next-generation mobile terminals, which are adopting touch-screen and reduced keypad schemes now more than ever."