PATROLL

Ascend Innovation entity, Accessify, communications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,197,640, owned by Accessify LLC, an NPE and entity of Ascend Innovation Management, LLC. The '640 patent relates generally to the use of identification codes in the handling and management of communications.

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 SUBMISSIONS

$10,000 for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have all been asserted against Disney.

The contests will expire on June 1, 2025. 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.

US 8280987 - Cloud Data Persistence Engine

US 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams

US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media

US 9860595 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

US 10165324 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

$4,000 for Polaris PowerLED memory controller patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various nonvolatile memory technologies. The ‘085 patent has been asserted against Western Digital and is involved in a declaratory judgement action with Micron.

The contests will expire on May 1, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. 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.

US 8195878 - Managing Storage Using a Solid State Drive (SSD)

US 9183085 - Plurality of Error Correction Coding Schemes in a Flash Drive

$500 awarded for Omni MedSci medical device patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nikko Quevada, who was awarded $500 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,055,868, owned and asserted by Omni MedSci, Inc., an NPE. The ‘868 patent focuses on a medical diagnostic system controlled by voice commands. It has been asserted against Samsung and Whoop.

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

$14,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified Patents added eight new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. 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.

The contests will expire on May 31, 2025. 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.

US 8244901 - Client Controlled Sessionless Adaptation

US 8378862 - Efficient Data Compression

US 8392598 - Client Controlled Sessionless Adaptation

US 8411742 - Iterative Coding for MPEG and H.264 Video Compression

US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming

US 9661104 - HTTP Streaming

US 10778989 - Rolling Intra Prediction for Image and Video Coding