Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, John Mayes, who received a cash prize of $8,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 6,839,751, owned by Packet Intelligence, LLC, an NPE. The '751 patent, directed to a method for analyzing a flow of packets passing through a connection point on a computer network, has been widely asserted in 11 district court cases. To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.