$32,000 for AutoConnect Holdings automotive patents prior art

Unified Patents added sixteen new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to vehicle ecosystems.

The contests will expire on June 2, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8831826 - Gesture Recognition for On-board Display

US 8983718 - Universal Bus in the Car

US 9008906 - Occupant Sharing of Displayed Content in Vehicles

US 9088572 - On Board Vehicle Media Controller

US 9117318 - Vehicle Diagnostic Detection

US 9142071 - Vehicle Zone-based Intelligent Console Display Settings

US 9142072 - Information Shared Between a Vehicle and User Devices

US 9159232 - Vehicle Climate Control

US 9297662 - Universal Bus in the Car

US 9338170 - On Board Vehicle Media Controller

US 9412273 - Radar Sensing and Emergency Response Vehicle Detection

US 9417834 - Occupant Sharing of Displayed Content in Vehicles

US 9524597 - Radar Sensing and Emergency Response Vehicle Detection

US 9952680 - Vehicle User Interface Customization and Control

US 11372936 - Vehicle User Profiles

US 11379541 - Adapting a Control Function Based on a User Profile

$8,000 awarded for Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, networking patents prior art

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

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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

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US 10,735,258 Self-allocating Resources

Winners: Ritu Tyagi & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 9380068; US 9235801

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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

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Ascend Innovation entity, Accessify, communications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,197,640, owned by Accessify LLC, an NPE and entity of Ascend Innovation Management, LLC. The '640 patent relates generally to the use of identification codes in the handling and management of communications.

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 SUBMISSIONS

$10,000 for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have all been asserted against Disney.

The contests will expire on June 1, 2025. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8280987 - Cloud Data Persistence Engine

US 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams

US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media

US 9860595 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

US 10165324 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

$4,000 for Polaris PowerLED memory controller 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 by Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various nonvolatile memory technologies. The ‘085 patent has been asserted against Western Digital and is involved in a declaratory judgement action with Micron.

The contests will expire on May 1, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8195878 - Managing Storage Using a Solid State Drive (SSD)

US 9183085 - Plurality of Error Correction Coding Schemes in a Flash Drive