Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $6,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to storage devices with controller and memory that enforce storage policies for content handling. They have been asserted against Samsung and Meta.
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 10776023 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winners - Brooklyn Sasumata, Matyas Rathonyi, Joshua Beck
Winning Submission: US 20080002272, US 9002795; Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Project Documents
US 11327669 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winner - Guddu Yadav
Winning Submissions: SCSI OBSD Command Set Proposal
US 11907553 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winners - Ketan Sachdeva, Umesh Kumar
Winning Submissions: US 7882320, US 8484736, Willow: A User-Programmable SSD