Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $14,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by OptiMorphix, Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various video optimization technologies. The patents have been asserted against Fortinet, Meta, Akamai Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, and Brightcove.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.
US 8230105 - Optimizing Media Data Transmission
Winners - Mani Manikandan, Dinesh Swami & Tanya Chauhan
Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 20090185619; US 8428148
US 8621061 - Adaptive Bitrate Management
Winners - Tanya Chauhan, Ritu Tyagi & Andrei Gilya
Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 20040240390; US 20080259834
US 8769141 - Streaming Media Optimization
Winners - Colin LaRose & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 8428148
US 9191664 - Optimal Session Bitrate Allocation
Winners - Tanya Chauhan & Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 9544602; US 8606966
US 9621896 - Quality-Aware Video Optimization
Winners - Ekta Aswal & Mani Manikandan
Winning Submissions: EP 1841237; US 20110274162
US 9894361 - Framework for Quality-Aware Video Optimization
Winning Submissions: US 8885705; US 7876257; US 5909250
US 10123015 - Intermediary Video Optimizer
Winners - Suman Sharma & Andrei Gilya
Winning Submissions: US 8548045; US 9152875; US 8588297
US 10412388 - Quantization Parameter Adjustment
Winners - Dinesh Swami, Mani Manikandan & Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: US 8331438; US 8027384; US 5978029