On January 23, 2020, Unified added 2 new PATROLL contests amounting to $6,000 in total prizes for prior art submissions regarding US 9,270,720 and US 8,472,792. The patents are owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group. The '720 patent relates to generating a top level index file for use in adaptive bitrate streaming; and the '792 patent relates to encoding and decoding multimedia files having at least one video track and at least one audio track. These patents are being asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.

The contests will expire on February 29, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.