PATROLL

$12,500 awarded for AutoConnect Holdings vehicle patents prior art

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

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US 9098367 - Self-configuring Vehicle Console Application Store

Winners - Calvin Zhong & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 20210048945; US 20050216902

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US 9123186 - Remote Control of Associated Vehicle Devices

Winner - Nisha Devi & Rama Krishna

Winning Submissions: US 8600581; US 9064101; US 20080245598

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US 9140560 - In-cloud Connection for Car Multimedia

Winners - Mani Manikandan & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 9916071; US 20020152264

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US 9147296 - User Interaction and Automation

Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 6584389; US 20080312796

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US 9173100 - On Board Vehicle Network Security

Winning Submissions: US 9094386; US 8341298; US 20190020985

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US 9290153 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: JP 2006005744; US 20080287064; US 10776103

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US 11163931 - Personalized Vehicle Settings

Winning Submissions: US 9663067; US 9064101; US 20220036256

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US 12039243 - User Profile Exchange via Vehicle-Supported Communications

Winners - Dinesh Swami & Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 6775603; US 20140303837; US 9663067

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$2,000 for Eric Zautner entity, Navog, GPS 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 10,593,205, owned and asserted by Navog LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The '205 patent relates to a GPS monitoring and alarm system that would warn truckers, bus and RV drivers, approaching underpasses, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, and other structures of insufficient clearance for their vehicle. It has been asserted against Garmin, TeleType Co., and Sygic.

The contest will expire on March 31, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$4,000 for STT WebOS web-based communication patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned and asserted by STT WebOS, Inc. The patents relate to web based control management systems and communications.They have been asserted against ByteDance.

The contests will expire on March 22, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

US 10,686,797 Information Exchange Over a Web Based Environment

US 11,336,754 Concurrent Web Based Multitasking Support

$2,000 for Eric Zautner entity, Conexus, web applications 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 11,736,499, owned and asserted by Conexus LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The '499 patent focuses on monitoring web applications for potentially malicious code execution, employing a model of legitimate behavior to identify anomalies. It details a thorough process of capturing and analyzing network and application activities to safeguard against security threats that bypass traditional defenses. It has been asserted against Datadog and eSentire.

The contest will expire on March 22, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 awarded for Avant Technologies mobile station patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami and Sukhdeep Singh, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,042,910, owned and asserted by Avant Location Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The ‘910 patent focuses on a method for monitoring a mobile station within special areas using radio signals to define the area's perimeter. The mobile station discerns these signals, differentiating them as distinctive to the area, and communicates with a mobile network to adjust operating parameters accordingly. The patent has been asserted against Apple, Fibar Group, Nice Group, 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.

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