USPTO Grants Patent to InsideSales.com

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted InsideSales.com a notice of approval on a recent patent application.  InsideSales.com is a provider of web-based phone dialer technologies, and as stated in a press release, the new patent includes unique and innovative telephony functions that can occur from a web page.

Most of the InsideSales.com technologies are designed for business-to-business companies.  They are best known for the PowerDialer which embeds phone dialer software into its technology.  The CEO of InsideSales.com, David Elkington, said:

This patent is the first approved and one of the most important of the many patents-pending in our portfolio. It allows us to assertively protect the core component of our PowerDialer technology which has become the leading dialer solution for companies trying to increase productivity in their inside sales and lead generation departments. The inside sales or remote selling space is an industry that is particularly relevant in light of our current economy. Buyers often prefer the time-savings of remote sales over face-to-face.

Inside Sales was recently ranked as the 2nd most effective method of lead generation in 2008 by BtoB Magazine.  Much of their web-based technology was developed at Northwestern University and MIT.