New Delhi: Mr. Umaasudhan Nataraja is a 20+ year software veteran who started his journey from the prestigious PSG College of Technology, India, completing his Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering. He architected and delivered many key customer-impactful projects worldwide, working with leading Companies like TCS India, Saudi Airlines, Woolworths Australia, Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Apple Inc., Avnet Services, Blue Shield of California, Sephora USA, Albertsons Group of Companies and Amazon USA.
He worked on a novel approach in January 2016 and applied for the patent on the Methodology for enabling Ringback tunes without Mobile network operator dependency. The patent aimed at bringing many Value Based Services (Voice Mail, Visual Voicemail, Caller Tunes, VOIP, Location Services, etc.) into the Mobile Application layer without dependency on network operators, bringing down the cost and also making these features available for end users globally. The patent was granted by the Indian Government in March 2024, “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING RINGBACK TONE SERVICE WITHOUT NETWORK DEPENDENCY” Patent No 522597.
In 2017, he founded Sudhan Technology Solutions (Tamil Nadu, India ) and launched the software-based Caller/Ringback Tune Solution that was downloaded more than Half a million times by Google Play users on Android Phones. In Apr 2019 , Umaasudhan Nataraja launched VoMail Video voicemail service Android Application that enables users from any part of the world to access Voice and Video Mail services without network dependency. The Voice mail service was something available in the western world for many decades in the form of a physical machine yet with many advanced features today it has become cumbersome and time consuming to access voicemails from users’ smartphones. Many countries in the world lack the Network based Visual Voicemail Box access systems due to the high costs and infrastructure update needed on Mobile networks . VoMail allows Android users from any part of the world to set multiple Voice or Video Mail Greetings for their loved ones and can send voice video mails if someone misses their call without the need of a Mobile network supporting voicemail.
A highly useful and informative Alexa was Skill Launched by Umaasudhan Nataraja in Dec 2019 to get details on the nearest Earthquake details in the last 24 hours and within 100 miles of your home location. This uses the location saved on the device to enable location based context service. During Mar 2020 , Umaasudhan Nataraja launched a mobile application to help Covid 19 Contact tracing called Locistory. Locistory is a Personal Location Diary that can be used as a Contact Tracing App that saves user’s location privately on their device every 15 minutes thus providing a diary of your visited location across a timeline. The application does not require the Internet and honours the users privacy without sharing the location context data anywhere outside the local device. With Users permission this location data can be exported in an anonymous masked way for any future contact tracing purpose needed by Govt Health care units.
The applications launched by Umaasudhan Nataraja are a great testament to the patent “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING RINGBACK TONE SERVICE WITHOUT NETWORK DEPENDENCY” providing a new Telecommunication Architecture for Value Based Services that can free end users from the Monthly Fee. The monthly fees were the result of the costly royalty patent charges incurred by the Mobile Operators across the world and now with the help of the new framework many features like Video Voice Mails , Location awareness services , Peer to Peer Telecommunication Calls , Chat , File transfer can be possible in the future for much lowered costs and readily available for anyone with a smartphone. The social good apps VoMail, Wring, Easy Voicemail, Truther, Locistory are available for free to download and use in Google Play Store and Apple iTunes worldwide.