$2,000 Awarded for Valyrian IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sanjay Sharma and Arpit Jain, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,970,706. The '706 patent generally relates to call forwarding techniques based based on priority levels for cordless phone systems. The patent is owned by Valyrian IP LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

US 6,970,706 The '706 patent ("Siemens") (filed on December 5, 2000) discloses a cordless digital telephonesystem which allows hierarchal call control. Claim 1 incorporates a base station operable inbroadcast mode and standard mode, broadcast mode allowing the broadcast of an incomingcall to all mobile units and standard mode which more closely resembles a conventional phonecall.