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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) granted Vonage two patents on voice traffic management and automated inventory management and authentication technology, said the company in a Tuesday news release. U.S. Patent 8,483,210 deals with technology that maintains voice quality…

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on VoIP telephone adapters and other devices that transmit voice and non-voice communications by adjusting the device’s bandwidth, Vonage said. Patent 8,478,548 deals with technology that allows network operators to verify that VoIP telephone adapters and other devices that connect to their networks were “distributed through authorized channels,” Vonage said. PTO has granted Vonage nine patents this year, and the company said it has another 180 patent applications pending at PTO (http://bit.ly/11zwy81).