Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Rajesh Singh, who split the winning cash prize of $1,000 for prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,137,127. The '127 patent is generally related to user-generated embedded information transfer and was granted to Benjamin Slotznick, an NPE-individual.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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

The patent-at-issue, U.S. Patent No. 7,137,127 ("Slotznick"), which was filed on October9, 2001 and claims an October 10, 2000 priority date, is directed to a method for processing anddisplaying objects embedded with information in the form of function calls prior to displayingthem. U.S. Patent No.