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26 April 2001
Multimap.com awarded internet patent


Multi Media Mapping Limited is pleased to announce that it has been granted a patent covering internet mapping technology.

The European patent EP0845124B, entitled "Computer System for Identifying Local Resources and Method Therefor," relates to Multimap.com's technology for displaying both an image of a map and information data relating to at least one place of interest on the map to an end user.

The European patent was filed in August 1996 and granted in May 2000. A corresponding patent has already been granted in Australia, with number AU708387. Other corresponding patent applications are pending in several additional countries.

Multi Media Mapping Limited is the operator of Multimap.com, the UK's most popular online directory. Multimap.com provides mapping and "store-finder" services to a large number of high-street retailers, the majority of Estate Agent web sites and thousands of other web sites in the UK and around the world.

The Multimap.com patent describes methods for displaying the locations of one or more places - hotels, restaurants, stores, etc. - on a map, with hyperlinks between the map and pages of information about the location. Specifically, the patent covers methods of operating a map server separately from local information servers.

MULTIMAP.COM AWARDED INTERNET PATENT
These methods enable Multimap.com to provide very rapid implementation of cost-effective mapping services to many thousands of web sites.

"This patent recognises the innovative nature of the early R&D phase of our company." said founder and CEO Sean Phelan. "The store-finder and mapping services that we deliver today are based on the new and innovative ways of implementing web-based services that we developed in 1995 and 1996."

About Multimap.com
Multimap.com is the UK's most popular mapping website, offering a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Great Britain, overview maps of the world, door-to-door Travel Directions, aerial photographs, links with the map of the London Underground network, and local information. Multimap.com's WAP site: wap.multimap.com gives WAP phone users easy access to its text-based travel directions and store finder services, with accompanying maps for users of larger screen WAP phones.

Multimap.com attracts over 2.5 million unique users every month and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK. Multimap.com is also the most significant provider of online mapping services to businesses and offers a range of fully customisable maps and directions for web pages, WAP sites, PDAs and Interactive TV.

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