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Redwood City, CA. October 15, 2008. Cataphora, Inc., an industry-leading provider of software for review and analysis of electronic data, today announced that further breakthrough innovations from Cataphora engineers have been granted patent protection. These important patents recognize new techniques in retrieval and analysis of electronic data and go the heart of addressing problems that organizations face due to the rapid increases in both the volume and diversity of electronic information.

The two newly announced patents are in the areas of visualization for search and analysis of electronic data sets, and techniques specific to litigation support and investigation. These patents augment Cataphora’s core technology patent, which was granted in 2006.

The first of these latest patents (number 7,421,660) covers innovative visualizations of the behavior of individuals and organizations as recorded in the electronic data trails they leave behind in the course of their daily lives. Because of the sheer size of many electronic datasets, users frequently face overwhelming problems with both holistic analysis and with locating specific pieces of information. The visualizations covered by this patent make Cataphora's powerful analytics accessible to its customers, providing invaluable insights that are otherwise unattainable.

"These visualizations are designed to highlight patterns of behavior - and deviations from them - that are of significant and practical interest to attorneys and investigators," said Elizabeth Charnock, Cataphora's CEO. "We have put many of the techniques covered by this patent to very successful use over the past several years, and our customers have found them invaluable in providing insight into critical evidentiary issues that they had no view of prior to our analysis."

Cataphora's visual analytics can be used as the basis for further refinement of searches, allowing users quickly and accurately to home in on critical information. The patent covers interactive graphical tools for guiding queries over Cataphora Discussions™.

The second patent (number 7,386,439) recognizes a range of specific techniques that build on Cataphora’s core technology patent to provide adaptations for the specialist needs of litigation support and the investigation of electronic evidence. Among the patented techniques are automated means of comparing data sets from different sources to assure completeness of document productions; automated detection of unusual absence or decrease of communication over a specified period – or between given actors – indicating possible suspicious deletion of data; automatic attribution of text to a specific author in cases where more than one author is involved (such as is the case in email chains where writers quote others' previous messages, for example); and specific advances in automated redaction.

Products and services featuring these patented technologies are already available from Cataphora.

About Cataphora

Cataphora Inc. is the creator of a suite of industry-leading products for investigative analytics and electronic evidence review. These provide attorneys, compliance officers and investigators with unprecedented insight into electronic data, revealing fact and behavior patterns, and providing answers to critical questions that were previously unanswerable. Cataphora's solutions are widely used by corporations, private law firms and investigators with document-intensive matters in areas such as white-collar crime, securities, antitrust and intellectual property.

Cataphora software is based on groundbreaking, patented technology that overthrows a long-standing assumption that the individual document is the logical unit of search and information retrieval. Instead, Cataphora's technology offers the construct of a "Discussion™" – a logical sequence of dialog among a set of actors, which may span many items, and even different types of items. Applications built on this technology are exceptionally suitable to unraveling the implications of modern electronic communications, with their wide variety of formats and frequently very terse and cryptic nature.

Cataphora is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Washington, DC; and Frankfurt, Germany; a certified reseller in London, England; and a field office in France. For more information, please visit www.cataphora.com.

Media Contact:
Rick Janowski

Cataphora Inc.
Tel: (650) 622-9840 x607
Fax: (650) 622-9844

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