On January 24, 2022, Unified added 14 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by DataCloud, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group. The contests will all end on April 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

We also have third-party prior art providers giving our researchers a head start in the hunt! Click on each of the contests to find more from Techson IP, IPscreener, and Google Patent Analytics.

• US 6,560,613 - Disambiguating File Descriptors

• US 6,651,063 - Data Organization and Management System

• US 6,824,064 - Smart Card

• US 7,139,780 - Synchronizing Files in Multiple Nodes

• US 7,209,959 - Network Communication

• US 7,246,351 - Distributed Network

• US 7,398,298 - Remote Access and Retrieval of Electronic Files

• US 7,469,405 - Scheduling Execution of Cross-platform Computer

• US 8,156,499 - Manufacture for Scheduling Execution of Programs

• US 8,370,457 - Network Communication

• US 8,607,139 - Managing Content

• US 8,615,555 - Remote Access and Retrieval of Electronic Files

• US 8,762,498 - Network Communication

• US RE44723 - Regulating File Access Rates According to File Type