Prior Art

$14,000 awarded for OptiMorphix video optimization patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $14,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by OptiMorphix, Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various video optimization technologies. The patents have been asserted against Fortinet, Meta, Akamai Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, and Brightcove.

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 8230105 - Optimizing Media Data Transmission

Winners - Mani Manikandan, Dinesh Swami & Tanya Chauhan

Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 20090185619; US 8428148

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US 8621061 - Adaptive Bitrate Management

Winners - Tanya Chauhan, Ritu Tyagi & Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 20040240390; US 20080259834

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US 8769141 - Streaming Media Optimization

Winners - Colin LaRose & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 8428148

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US 9191664 - Optimal Session Bitrate Allocation

Winners - Tanya Chauhan & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 9544602; US 8606966

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US 9621896 - Quality-Aware Video Optimization

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: EP 1841237; US 20110274162

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US 9894361 - Framework for Quality-Aware Video Optimization

Winning Submissions: US 8885705; US 7876257; US 5909250

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US 10123015 - Intermediary Video Optimizer

Winners - Suman Sharma & Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 8548045; US 9152875; US 8588297

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US 10412388 - Quantization Parameter Adjustment

Winners - Dinesh Swami, Mani Manikandan & Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 8331438; US 8027384; US 5978029

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$2,000 awarded for Polaris Innovations memory patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $2,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Polaris Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Owlpoint IP Opportunities JVF I LP. The patents generally relate to various semiconductor memory technologies. The patents have been asserted against Qualcomm.

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 7184339 - Semiconductor Memory Testing

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ritu Tyagi

Winning Submissions: US 5883843; US 6917563

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US 7499371 - Semiconductor Memory System

Winning Submissions: US 6791888; US 7983101; US 7170818; US 7035029

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US 8117526 - Data Bus Inversion

Winning Submissions: US 20050289435; US 6732288; WO 2006027742

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$9,000 awarded for Polaris PowerLED memory controller patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $9,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various nonvolatile memory technologies.

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

Winning Submissions: US 7644239; US 8612668

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US 8588228 - Nonvolatile Memory Controller with Host Controller Interface

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 8549182; US 8719455; US 8180977

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US 9021337 - Error Correction Coding Schemes

Winning Submissions: US 8412879; US 9317362

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

Winners - Colin LaRose, Ekta Aswal, Nisha Devi

Winning Submissions: US 7210077; US 20100241928; US 20080222490

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US 9305661 - Reducing Bit Errors in the Nonvolatile Memory System

Winners - Ekta Aswal, Calvin Zhong, Nisha Devi

Winning Submissions: US 8935467; US 8151034; US 8331144

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US 9799405 - Reducing Latency of a Memory Controller

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 7545677; US 20110007563

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US 9830245 - Generating Event Trace Records

Winners - Ritu Tyagi, S.P. Ragupathy

Winning Submissions: US 20140075052; US 7379860; US 20110239196

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$3,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Calibrate Networks, Kubernetes/open source patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,584,633, owned and asserted by Calibrate Networks LLC, an NPE and a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The '633 patent relates to a system for enhancing network communications by avoiding data copy, task switching, and simplifying protocol processing. It has been asserted against Kubernetes implementations within applications owned or created by Shopify, Box, Airbnb, and Blackberry.

The contest will expire on June 30, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for the contest. 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.

This PATROLL contest is co-sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and is a part of a continuing series of contests in their Cloud Native Heroes Challenge program. Cloud native developers can earn swag and prizes by helping us defeat patent trolls. Find more information on CNCF and the challenges within the links below:

$4,000 for IP Investments Group entity, Digimedia Tech, storage 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 DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘220 patent has been asserted against GM and Pinterest, and the ‘088 patent has been asserted against Box, Pinterest, CarGurus, and eHarmony.

The contests will expire on June 13, 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 6684220 - Automatic Information Exchange

US 7287088 - Storage Optimization