Commetrex Spin-Out Awarded Patent
Twenty Claims Cover Fundamental Aspects of On-Demand Telecom

For Immediate Release

Roswell, GA, December 20, 2005 - NetGen Communications, Inc., a spin out of Commetrex Corporation owned by Commetrex' shareholders, has been awarded US patent 6,931,111, Methods and Systems for Providing Communications Services (the 1111 patent), on August 16. The patent's 20 claims cover the provision of communications functions, such as PBX, messaging, and video and audio conferencing, as an on-demand service provided through a combination of Internet-based servers and a premises-based service node. NetGen said it is seeking service-provider partners interested in solving the problem of meeting the integrated-communications needs of the SMB.

Mike Coffee, CEO of both NetGen and Commetrex, commented: "We believe the full utilization of the 1111 patent will finally solve the problem of how the world's small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will be able to affordably compete in the communications-intensive twenty-first century. Meeting the demand for such services would create one of the great companies to begin in this century. But utilizing the 1111 patent is not our business, which is to provide critical value-adding technology to the telecom-equipment developer, so we founded NetGen to hold and exploit the patent, which was filed in 1999."

The 1111 patent discloses systems and methods that allow a user to access communications services using a service node or a computer connected via the Internet to a communications-applications support system at a service provider's facility. The user is provided with information as to the communications services available. These services may be ordered for implementation on and used with the service node or the user's computer. Upgrades, maintenance, and new services may be transferred from the applications-support system to the user's computer, as appropriate. The system relieves the user from provisioning, configuring, maintaining, updating, or educating individuals about the communications services.

About Commetrex
Commetrex Corporation develops and markets enabling technologies designed to shorten the time to market and reduce the development cost of integrated-media telecommunications equipment. Long known for its market-leading fax and other licensed technologies, Commetrex has recently completed a multi-year development effort to offer the equipment developer middleware software products and a media-stream framework, plus a comprehensive line of DSP-resource and network-interface boards.

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