Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $8,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Arlington Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Dominion Harbor Group. The patents relate to various technologies and two of the patents have been asserted against Comcast.
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 7,193,986 Wireless Network MAC Protocol
Winners: Calvin Zhong & Nisha Devi
Winning Submissions: US 7133396; US 5644576
US 7,324,491 Over-the-air Bandwidth Reservations in Wireless Networks
Winners: Umesh Kumar, Ketan Sachdeva & Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN for Quality of Service (“Mangold”); US 20030103520; US 6785252
US 10,735,258 Self-allocating Resources
Winners: Ritu Tyagi & Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: US 9380068; US 9235801
US 11,381,626 Video Codec for High Resolution and High Frame Rate Video
Winners: Suman Trikha & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 20030142872; US 9197845