PATROLL

$2,000 for TG--2006 Holdings info tracking patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,454,741, owned by TG--2006 Holdings, LLC, an NPE. The ‘741 patent relates generally to information tracking, and in particular, to a system and method of tracking information in a business environment. The patent has been asserted against Carbonite, Wrike, Box, Acronis, pCloud AG, Microsoft, and Siber Systems.

The contest will expire on March 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$5,500 awarded for IP Edge entity, Communication Advances, video/image patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $5,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The three patents below generally relate to video and image processing and all three patents have been asserted against Roku.

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.

US 8736529 - Method and Apparatus for Generating an Overdrive Signal for a Liquid Crystal Display

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 20060279523

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US 8494058 - Video/image processing apparatus with motion estimation sharing, and related method and machine readable medium

Winners - Mani Manikandan & Dinesh Swami

Winning Submissions: US 8358373; US 9258519; US 20090161011

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US 8284839 - Joint system for frame rate conversion and video compression

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ken Parulski

Winning Submissions: US 8218638; “Source-Adaptive Encoding Options

for HDTV and NTSC”

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$1,500 awarded for IP Edge entity Communication Advances video compression patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ken Parulski, who split a cash award of $1,500 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8284839, owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge, LLC. The patents generally relate to video and image processing and has been asserted against Roku.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

Dialect communications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 8,140,327, owned by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘327 patent generally relates to a system and method for filtering and eliminating noise from natural language utterances to improve speech recognition and parsing. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Samsung.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

$2,000 awarded for Dialect telematics patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Dinesh Swami, was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,195,468, owned by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘468 patent generally relates to a mobile system that includes speech-based and non-speech-based interfaces for telematics applications. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Samsung.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION