Unified Patents added two separate PATROLL contests with an opportunity to collect up to $4,000 in cash for prior art on at least claim 1 of two patents - U.S. Patent 8,229,409 and U.S. Patent 8,792,874. The patents are owned by Silent Communications LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity. The ‘409 patent generally relates to allowing a calling party to make a called party be aware of its intention to establish a call session with it in one or more ways and has been asserted against Adobe, Lifesize, and Fuze. The '874 patent generally relates to providing messaging services which may provide for download, synchronization, voicemail-message to text-message translation, direct access and handling of selected voicemail messages through a user's user interface and is currently being asserted against Blackberry.

The contests will expire on September 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.