Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $12,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to vehicle ecosystems. These patents have been asserted against Ford and Toyota.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.
US 9020697 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery
Winner - Dinesh Swami
Winning Submissions: US 20070124045
US 9098367 - Self-configuring Vehicle Console Application Store
Winners - Calvin Zhong & Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: US 20210048945; US 20050216902
US 9123186 - Remote Control of Associated Vehicle Devices
Winner - Nisha Devi & Rama Krishna
Winning Submissions: US 8600581; US 9064101; US 20080245598
US 9140560 - In-cloud Connection for Car Multimedia
Winners - Mani Manikandan & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 9916071; US 20020152264
US 9147296 - User Interaction and Automation
Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan
Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 6584389; US 20080312796
US 9173100 - On Board Vehicle Network Security
Winning Submissions: US 9094386; US 8341298; US 20190020985
US 9290153 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery
Winner - Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: JP 2006005744; US 20080287064; US 10776103
US 11163931 - Personalized Vehicle Settings
Winning Submissions: US 9663067; US 9064101; US 20220036256
US 12039243 - User Profile Exchange via Vehicle-Supported Communications
Winners - Dinesh Swami & Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: US 6775603; US 20140303837; US 9663067