$2,000 awarded for Proxense authentication patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ketan Sachdeva, Adrei Gilya, Ekta Aswal, and Umesh Kumar, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,251,332, owned and asserted by Proxense LLC, an NPE. The ‘332 patent presents a security system and method for controlling access to computing resources, featuring the use of personal digital keys (PDKs) and readers to manage and secure access. The patent has been asserted against Hyundai and LG.

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 9118656

• US 7979714

• US 20040181695

• US 20070207750

• WO 20060060558

$2,000 awarded for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Tanya Chauhan and Ketan Sachdeva, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,812,497, owned and asserted by Conexus LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '497 patent details systems and methods for detecting network security threats through application data flow and connection lineage tracing within enterprise, cloud, and IoT environments. It focuses on collecting connection and application execution information, tracking users, and machines involved to identify suspicious activities. It has been asserted against Splunk, Rapid7, and Wallarm.

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 9026840

• US 8352589

• US 9753796

• KR 100687736

$2,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Nitish Jaswal, Huang Chien-Cheng, and Calvin Zhong, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,411,742, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The ‘742 patent introduces a hybrid video encoder that optimizes multivariable solutions across various elements, such as quantizers and motion compensators, by employing soft decision processing.

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 6249546

• Rate Distortion Optimized Quantization (“Wang”)

• US 6167162

• Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (“CABAC”)

$2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, Digimedia Tech, storage patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi and Geethanath, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,287,088, owned and asserted by DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘088 patent has been asserted against Box, Pinterest, CarGurus, and eHarmony.

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 20070064124

• JP 3820086

• US 7965310

$2,000 awarded for FITE Technologies network patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi, Ekta Aswal, and Dinesh Swami, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 12,028,640, owned and asserted by FITE Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The '640 patent relates to a network of recording studios to share recording sessions in a social media format. It had been asserted against ByteDance Ltd.

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 9578365

• US 9741057

• US 20140379478

• US 9454789