$2,000 awarded for 2BCom data transfer patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Manikandan Mani, Dinesh Swamy, and Ekta Aswal, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,885,643, owned by 2BCom, LLC, an NPE and Markman Advisors entity. The ‘643 patent generally relates to data transfer via wireless communications. The patent has been asserted against Netgear, D-Link Systems, Walmart, and Honeywell.

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

• JPH08275237

• US 7218643

• US 6307839

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$2,000 awarded for BNP Holdings financial software prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ramesh Varadharaj, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,374,229, owned by BNP Holdings, an NPE. The '229 patent generally relates to web-based accounting and financial software. It is currently being asserted against Intuit.

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

• US 6515968

• US 5905736

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III Holdings grid computing patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,135,066, owned by Intellectual Ventures subsidiary and NPE, III Holdings 12, LLC. The '066 patent relates to a system and method for managing access to compute resources in the context of a grid or cluster of computers. Grid computing may be defined as coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional collaborations.

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

• US 7453801

• US 8346909

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III Holdings '972 patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 8,150,972, owned by Intellectual Ventures subsidiary and NPE, III Holdings 12, LLC. The '972 patent relates to a system, method, and computer-readable media for providing a reservation mask for compute resources such as a cluster or a grid.

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

• A Distributed Resource Management Architecture that Supports Advance Reservations and Co-Allocation (“Foster”)

• US 7475419

• US 7316020

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IP Investments Group entity DataCloud Technologies prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on several patents owned by IP Investments Group entity, DataCloud, LLC. Fill out the form below to download the winning submissions.

• US 6,560,613 - Disambiguating File Descriptors

• US 7,246,351 - Distributed Network

• US 7,469,405 - Scheduling Execution of Cross-platform Computer

• US 8,156,499 - Manufacture for Scheduling Execution of Programs

• US 8,370,457 - Network Communication

• US 8,607,139 - Managing Content

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.