Avistar has been granted two U.S. new patents: 7,398,296, issued on July 8, 2008 and 7,412,482, issued on August 12, 2008. These patents further expand Avistar's intellectual property coverage in the areas of login-based VoIP services and text- based instant messaging.

Avistar, in addition to its pioneering communications products with features that have consistently led the competition, owns and continues to develop an extensive portfolio of 82 patents covering presence-based interactions, wireless communications, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, instant messaging, multimedia documents, data sharing and service-rich video network architectures.

The two new patents cover systems and methods for login-based routing of real-time communications (such as text instant messaging, VoIP and two-way video conferencing) between users employing a quick-dial panel (such as a buddy list) or a screen-displayed list or rolodex. Users can flexibly login at any number of devices or locations and can choose from a number of real-time communications options, including text-based real-time messaging.