It developed the Intent software platform, which enabled content portability by delivering services in a platform-independent format called Virtual Processor (VP).

[4] Tao licensed more than 20 million copies of Intent to clients, working with companies such as Sony, NEC, JVC, Kyocera, HTC, Philips Electronics, Kodak, Sharp and Panasonic.

From 2001 to 2004[citation needed], the Open Contents Platform Association (chaired by Kyocera President Yasuo Nishiguchi) and Tao CEO Francis Charig looked at networked device standardisation using Intent.

[5] In 2006, Tao was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer[6] and was ranked 26th in the 2006 Tech Track 100 in association with the Sunday Times.

Investors in Tao Group included Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, Sony, NEC, Sharp, Kyocera, and Mitsubishi.