IP Edge entity, Communication Advances, image patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,538,177, owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The ‘177 patent relates to a buffering apparatus for buffering context arrays of a multi-tile encoded picture. It has been asserted against Roku.

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 10455246

• US 20230224463

$9,000 awarded for Emerging Automotive vehicle patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $9,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Emerging Automotive LLC. The patents generally relate to user profiles for vehicles and e-Keys and have been asserted against Toyota and Kia.

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.

US 9171268 - Managing User Profiles for Vehicles

Winners: Dinesh Swami, Kiyoshi Yoda, & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: US 20100228405; US 8463488; “Car-Sharing: Where and How It Succeeds (2005)”

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US 9365188 - Generating and Sharing Electronic Keys (e-Keys) with Users

Winners: Ekta Aswal & Ramesh Varadharaj

Winning Submissions: JP 2004190233; US 7868736; US 20080150683

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US 10407026 - Generating and Sharing Electronic Keys (e-Keys)

Winners: Mani Manikandan, Ramesh Varadharaj, & Dinesh Swami

Winning Submissions: US 20100293607; US 8330571; US 20100073125

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US 11396244 - Managing User Profiles for Vehicles

Winners: Ekta Aswal, Mani Manikandan, & Vibhor Dimri

Winning Submissions: US 20110137520; US 8522320; US 6505780; US 20070255464

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US 11738659 - Vehicles and Cloud Systems for Sharing E-keys

Winners: Ramesh Varadharaj, & Dinesh Swami

Winning Submissions: US 20080150683; US 7868736; JP 2009293283

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$2,000 for TG--2006 Holdings info tracking 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 9,454,741, owned by TG--2006 Holdings, LLC, an NPE. The ‘741 patent relates generally to information tracking, and in particular, to a system and method of tracking information in a business environment. The patent has been asserted against Carbonite, Wrike, Box, Acronis, pCloud AG, Microsoft, and Siber Systems.

The contest will expire on March 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$5,500 awarded for IP Edge entity, Communication Advances, video/image patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $5,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The three patents below generally relate to video and image processing and all three patents have been asserted against Roku.

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.

US 8736529 - Method and Apparatus for Generating an Overdrive Signal for a Liquid Crystal Display

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 20060279523

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US 8494058 - Video/image processing apparatus with motion estimation sharing, and related method and machine readable medium

Winners - Mani Manikandan & Dinesh Swami

Winning Submissions: US 8358373; US 9258519; US 20090161011

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US 8284839 - Joint system for frame rate conversion and video compression

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ken Parulski

Winning Submissions: US 8218638; “Source-Adaptive Encoding Options

for HDTV and NTSC”

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$1,500 awarded for IP Edge entity Communication Advances video compression patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ken Parulski, who split a cash award of $1,500 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8284839, owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge, LLC. The patents generally relate to video and image processing and has been asserted against Roku.

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 8218638

• “Source-Adaptive Encoding Options for HDTV and NTSC” (“Parulski”)