PATROLL

$2,000 awarded for Helios Streaming multimedia patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami and Ekta Aswal, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,549,164, owned by Helios Streaming, LLC, an NPE. The patent generally relates to multimedia streaming. The ‘164 patent is currently asserted against Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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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InfoGation navigation patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,292,743, owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The ‘743 patent generally relates to navigation systems. The patent has been asserted against Toyota, BMW, Honda, Changan Ford Automobile, and Porsche.

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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$2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, Advanced Transactions, email patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Sharma and Mani Manikandan, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,386,594, owned by Advanced Transactions LLC, an entity of IP Investments Group. The ‘594 patent relates to an email campaign generator that generates an email campaign template from an email target database. It has been asserted against Belk, Fiesta Mart, Advance Auto Parts, Regis Corp., Marco’s Pizza, The Gap, AutoZone, and Staples.

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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Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE. The patents have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, and Liberty Mutual.

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 for US 7712080 - Parallel Distributed Programming - DOWNLOAD HERE

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  • US 5197137

  • “An Execution Order Control Method of Distributed Processes for Sharing Global Variables”

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 7949785 - Secure Virtual Community Network System - DOWNLOAD HERE

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 8407722 - Transferring Information Through Digital Networks - DOWNLOAD HERE

$2,000 for Wrinkl messaging 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 11,973,731, owned by Wrinkl, Inc., an NPE. The ‘731 patent relates to creating and displaying subsidiary channel-based thread communications in a group-based messaging system. It has been asserted against Slack.

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