PATROLL

$4,000 awarded for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have been asserted against Disney.

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 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ujjwal Kumar Jha

Winning Submission: US 20060080724; US 20060200576

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US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Tanya Chauhan

Winning Submissions: US 9438861; US 20110072075; US 20080133766; CN 100581111-C

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$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

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 8378862 - Efficient Data Compression

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 7265692

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US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming

Winner - Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 8677005; US 20110096828

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$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.

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$2,000 for IP Investments Group entity, eComm Innovations, web layout patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,409,635, owned by eComm Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Investments Group. The '635 patent focuses on advancements in data processing, specifically aiming at improving layout and rendering techniques in web and print publishing.

The contest will expire on November 22, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for the contest. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

$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.

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