Denver Colorado, September 9, 2009. Catalyst Repository Systems announced that it has been awarded a patent from the United States Patent office covering certain functionality in its Catalyst CR product. The patent number is 7,574,446 and is entitled: "Converting Arbitrary Strings into Numeric Representations to Facilitate Complex Comparisons." It was issued on August 11, 2009.

"This patent represents extremely complex work done by Bruce Kiefer and Cody Collier at Catalyst to build better functionality for our clients," noted John Tredennick, Catalyst's CEO. "When they started working on the problem several years ago, I thought it might not be solvable. But they did it," he added.

"Catalyst uses the patented functionality in Catalyst CR, its flagship search, analytics and review platform," stated Larry Barela, Catalyst's CTO. "It has been in place for several years now while the patent application was pending. and users count on this functionality in structuring their searches," he continued.

Catalyst now has a consulting team staffed with legal and technology professionals who help client develop search strategy and take advantage of Catalyst's analytics capabilities to reduce target populations and focus large-scale reviews. For more information on Catalyst's Catalytics capabilities, contact Jim Eidelman, the Director of Catalyst Consulting ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

About Catalyst

Catalyst provides secure, scalable document repositories for electronic discovery and other complex legal matters. For over a decade, the Catalyst team has helped corporations and counsel control litigation costs and make review teams more effective by offering a central, web-based platform to manage documents, coordinate deadlines and work together across organizations. Catalyst's enterprise repository systems and supporting services cover the entire litigation lifecycle, from processing and analytics, to review, production and trial.

Catalyst delivers its software directly and through a global partner network that offers consulting, collection, project management and forensic services. The company manages a grid of hundreds of servers in two data centers and has hosted over 100 terabytes (over a billion pages) of confidential data for large corporations and insurance companies.

Catalyst products have been used by many of the largest organizations in the world, including five of the world's 10 largest companies, four of the nation's 10 largest insurers and 70 of the nation's 100 largest law firms. Catalyst has also hosted highly-sensitive terrorist information for the United States Justice Department and regularly assists with multi-party criminal matters.

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