$2,000 Awarded for Digi Portal '342 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for her prior art submission for U.S. Patent 9,626,342. The '342 patent was formally owned by Yahoo and is now owned by Digi Portal, an NPE and subsidiary of Excalibur IP, owned by IP Edge. The '342 patent generally relates to a dynamic page generator.

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 SUBMISSION

US 9,626,342 The '342 patent ("Nazem") was filed on December 21st 2012 and has a priority date of June 12th,1997 as a consequence of being the final installment of a string of continuations. Claim 1 of thepatent discloses a method for implementing a custom webpage with real-time information.