Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $1,000 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,147,297, owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The ‘297 patent focuses on building profiles associated with vehicle users, enhancing user interface and virtual personality presentations based on user profiles, creating targeted advertising profiles, modifying behavior through map routes based on user information, implementing vehicle location-based home automation triggers, and initiating vehicle communications with third parties. It has been asserted against Ford and GM.
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.
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