Post-Issue Peer to Patent - Patent Profiles

Dynamic association of electronically stored information with iterative workflow changes

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:02:10 +0000

Patent 7,139,761 (the '761 patent) has been asserted by Leader Technologies, Inc. against Facebook, Inc. in a federal district court action alleging willful infringement. The '761 patent could pose a threat to numerous social network sites. This challenge is to determine whether the claims of the '761 patent are valid.

Paid search engine bid management

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:23:34 +0000

Patent 7,043,450 (the '450 patent) has been asserted by Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC against Microsoft Corp. and Google, Inc. in federal district court alleging patent infringement. The '450 patent pertains to a system for monitoring keyword bids across one or more search engines so that that marketers can make adjustments to their pay-per-click bids. This patent may impact any party that is in the business of selling keywords for advertising and marketing. The challenge is to determine whether the patent is valid.

Method and apparatus for improved information storage and retrieval system

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:44:18 +0000

These patents (5,729,730, 6,151,604, 6,163,775, and 6,182,121) are a group and are interesting to Linux because they describe an object-oriented management layer that resides on top of an hierarchically-organized set of data. The patents apply to data management (that potentially enable a disconnected management layer to reside on top of databases, file systems, XML and operating system components), search engine marketing (that potentially enable the required joining of orthogonal sets of data at the keyword level) and (document management (that potentially enable features such as branching, merging, user-level document control and multi-authored documents).

Method and apparatus configured according to a logical table having cell and attributes containing address segments

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:00:07 +0000

Method and apparatus for a physical storage architecture having an improved information storage and retrieval system for a shared file environment

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:06:00 +0000

Method and apparatus for improved information storage and retrieval system - 2nd

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:04:48 +0000

System and method for iconic software environment management

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:39:22 +0000

Cygnus Systems, Inc., the holder of the '850 patent, has asserted the patent in litigation against Google, Microsoft and Apple alleging their use of document preview icons - thumbnails - in their operating systems and browsers. If successful in this action, this patent may be asserted against other operating systems and browsers. The '850 patent claims continuation from a patent application filed June 12, 1998.

(3) User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:15:23 +0000

IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectively, "Plaintiffs") have brought a patent-infringement action against Red Hat, Inc., and Novell, Inc., alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Numbers 5,072,412; 5,533,183; and 5,394,521. The patents concern a user interface that has multiple workspaces. The Plaintiffs' complaint identifies as accused products "Red Hat Linux system," the "Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop," and the "Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server."
UPDATE: THESE THREE PATENTS WERE INVALIDATED BY THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS, ON APRIL 30, 2010, IN THE ABOVE REFERENCED ACTION.

(2) User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:06:57 +0000

(1) User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:25:03 +0000

(a) Common name space for long and short filenames

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:48:00 +0000

This patent was asserted by Microsoft Corp. against TomTom.

(b) Common name space for long and short filenames

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:59:07 +0000

This patent was asserted by Microsoft Corp. against TomTom. [Note: The claims listed are those claims surviving or amended by that Reexamination Certificate issued October 10, 2006.]

Method and system for file system management using a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:28:03 +0000

This patent was asserted by Microsoft Corp. against TomTom

Computer system security method and apparatus having program authorization information data structures

Tue, 19 May 2009 21:01:31 +0000

The holder of the '717 patent has sued Microsoft, Symantec, CA, F-Secure, McAfee, Kaspersky, Sophos, Novell, and PC Tools for infringing this patent.

Store-and-forward packet radio system and method

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:11:59 +0000

Stragent, LLC, the exclusive licensee of this patent, has brought numerous actions asserting this patent against others. Of particular interest is Claim 24 and its relevance to bulletin board services, such as jforum

Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:09:23 +0000

Virnetx, the holder of this patent, has asserted this patent (along with U.S. patent no. 7,418,504) against Apple, Cisco, NEC and others. Of particular interest is claim 13.

Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:02:43 +0000

Virnetx, the holder of this patent, has asserted this patent (along with U.S. patent no. 6,502,135) against Apple, Cisco, NEC and others. Of particular interest are claims 36, 38-41, 43-47, and 50-59.

Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:15:51 +0000