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Global Web Publisher Freewebs Awarded First Patent - U.S. Patent No. 7,085,825 - Another Key Milestone to Vastly Improve the Web Experience for Everyone

Posted on: Monday, 18 September 2006, 09:00 CDT

World's Second-Largest Web Publisher Receives Patent Related to New Technologies That Allow For Dynamic Web Server Allocation

Freewebs.com, the Internet's leading free do-it-yourself Website publisher, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company its first-ever patent. The patented technology allows Internet content providers to dynamically replicate software across Web servers in order to maintain consistently fast response times while handling large shifts in network traffic due to special events, developing news or geographic situations.

As part of Freewebs broad charter to "democratize the Internet" and make Web sites as ubiquitous as e-mail addresses, the company has received U.S. Patent No. 7,085,825, titled "Apparatus, Method and System for Improving Application Performance Across a Communications Network."

This announcement is the latest development in Freewebs' quest to create a better Web. Last month, the company announced that it had formed the Freewebs Farms development community (www.freewebsfarms.com), a collective for creating a better Web experience for everyone by encouraging the collaborative development of new tools and applications, and also acquired technologies from Mad4Milk.net, a developer of Web 2.0 applications.

"As Internet users become more and more accustomed to Google-like response speeds wherever they are on the Web, those that can deliver will be the most successful," said Rebecca Wettemann, vice president with industry analyst firm Nucleus Research. "This innovation provides a broader group of content providers with the potential for Google-like scalability--and less risk that viewers will move on when a site is too slow."

"At its core, Freewebs is an innovation company. We have already built a massively- scalable platform capable of supporting 50 million users," said Shervin Pishevar, president of Freewebs. "Now, we're expanding our offerings through new innovations--from this new patent to the developments being created by the Freewebs Farms community--that will create a better experience for everyone that uses the Internet: large content providers; individuals sharing photos, blogs, music and video on their own Web sites; large and small companies doing business online; and, ultimately, anyone who consumes Internet content."

New Technologies to Benefit Content Consumers and Providers Alike

The patent covers technology that can dynamically replicate one or more nodes on a network in response to a user request. For content providers, when a specific Web server or servers are being over utilized, the technology will quickly optimize underutilized capacity by automatically replicating applications or content to a more-optimal server or servers, and route subsequent requests to them.

The benefit for end users is consistently quick response time, while content providers can offer optimized, even "tiered" levels of content distribution services.

About Freewebs

For everyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs.com is the free, do-it-yourself Web site builder that guarantees anyone can easily create and share a complete, high-quality Web site through its versatile web publishing platform. Today, more than 11 million individuals, groups, organizations and small businesses worldwide use Freewebs to create and host comprehensive Web sites that include blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. The company has received funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, Md.

Source: Business Wire

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