Mobile e-mail company Visto announced on Monday that it reached a settlement and licensing agreement with Microsoft.

The settlement will end the lawsuit filed in 2005 by Visto against Microsoft. The mobile e-mail company said that the specific terms and conditions of the agreement are confidential and both companies will dismiss all pending legal claims. 

Back in 2005, Visto claimed that Microsoft has infringed upon multiple patents regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their email and other data.

Visto’s co-founder Daniel Mendez and others developed a system that allows consumers to receive their email and other sensitive data via mobile phones or other mobile devices while traveling. Mendez and Visto went on to patent the system that drives email from personal or business servers to mobile devices like cell phones and allows users to access sensitive data and email stored behind highly secure corporate firewalls.

Visto's clients include largest mobile phone carriers like Sprint-Nextel, Vodafone and Rogers Wireless.

According to the complaint filed in December 2005, Visto said Microsoft has infringed on three patents relating to its mobile access to email and data technology:

* U.S. Patent No. 6,085,192 titled, “System And Method For Securely Synchronizing Multiple Copies Of A Workspace Element In A Network”
* U.S. Patent No. 6,708,221 titled, “System And Method For Globally And Securely Accessing Unified Information In A Computer Network”
* U.S. Patent No. 6,151,606 titled, “System And Method For Using A Workspace Data Manager To Access, Manipulate And Synchronize Network Data”

The company requested a permanent injunction against Microsoft and monetary damages. The settlement, which involves "cash and non-cash consideration", occurs just a week before the case was scheduled to go on trial in U.S. federal court in Marshall, Texas.