industry security solutions for internet commerce founded 1993 headquarters redwood city california revenue us 60m 2006 website tumbleweed tumbleweed communications corp. provided secure messaging and secure file transfer solutions for enterprise and government customers . 1 tumbleweed communications merged with axway in 2008 . tumbleweed products were used to block security threats protect information and conduct business online . tumbleweed provided solutions for inbound and outbound email protection secure file routing and identity validation that allow organizations to conduct business over the internet . tumbleweed offered these solutions in three product suites mailgate securetransport and validation authority . mailgate provides protection against spam viruses and attacks and enables policy based message filtering encryption and routing . securetransport enables customers to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary software . validation authority determines the validity of digital certificates . tumbleweed has approximately 2 300 enterprise and government customers . their traditional market focus has been in the financial services health care and government markets . contents 1 merger 2 revenue 3 awards 4 patents 5 competitors 6 representative customers 7 references 8 see also merger edit axway acquired tumbleweed in early june 2008 . tumbleweed acquired corvigo in 2004 . with the acquisition tumbleweed gained the linux based anti spam appliance mailgate . tumbleweed acquired valicert in 2003 . the valicert securetransport product was added to tumbleweed s security suite . tumbleweed acquired worldtalk in 2000 . revenue edit in 2005 tumbleweed earned approximately us 50 million in gross revenue from the sale of their products and services . of that approximately us 3 million was from licensing their patents . 2 in 2006 tumbleweed reported us 62 million in revenue with revenue growth over one year of 24 % . 3 not in citation given in 2007 tumbleweed reported us 57.50 million in revenue with revenue growth over one year of 7.30 % . 3 awards edit in january 2007 tumbleweed s mailgate 5550 was named sc magazine s best of 2006 recommended award in the anti spam category . 4 patents edit tumbleweed has a patent portfolio including 22 utility patents 5 and one issued us design patent . us patent 6192407 is one of several owned by tumbleweed that relates to document delivery systems that generate a unique url for intended recipients of a document in order to deliver that document . tumbleweed has licensed this and related patents in their patent portfolio to 29 companies . 6 they have filed several patent infringement lawsuits . those that have been sued include paypal 7 this suit has been settled . terms of the settlement have not been disclosed . hallmark cards 8 this suit has been settled . hallmark agreed to take a license . yahoo and hsbc bank usa 9 this suit has been settled . the terms have been described by yahoo and hsbc lawyers as favorable to yahoo and hsbc . dst systems and newriver 10 this suit has been settled . dst systems and newriver will pay tumbleweed four cents for each delivery of electronic information using a personalized trackable url . overall tumbleweed earns about 6 % of its revenue from patent licensing . competitors edit major competitors of tumbleweed include 11 sterling commerce trend micro zix representative customers edit representative customers of tumbleweed include 12 unreliable source ubs bank of america jpmorgan chase the regence group aetna references edit tumbleweed sec 10q filing for the quarterly period ended september 30 2006 us government publication tumbleweed 2005 10k sec form a b tumbleweed communications corp. company profile . retrieved 2008 03 21 . tumbleweed named in sc magazine best of 2006 award tumbleweed press release january 10 2007 list of us patents issued to tumbleweed tumbleweed patent licensees ebay tumbleweed settle patent suit hallmark settles online greeting card lawsuit morrison and foerster s patent litigation pending cases archived in 2007 tumbleweed settles url lawsuit hoovers inc. profile of tumbleweed communications march 12 2007 tumbleweed partners with child health corporation of america to deliver comprehensive secure messaging solutions to children s hospitals . tumbleweed . archived from the original on 2008 02 21 . retrieved 2008 07 24 . see also edit list of software patents retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tumbleweed communications & oldid 739639279 categories information technology companies of the united statescompanies based in redwood city californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with failed verificationarticles with failed verification from july 2008all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles lacking reliable references from july 2008 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate 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