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03/28/06
7,020,310 Animated toy utilizing artificial intelligence and fingerprint verification
Issued: March 28, 2006
Filed: September 1, 2004
U.S. Class: 382/124
Abstract: An articulated and animated toy capable of recognizing human users and interacting therewith includes a computer-based device storing encoded first human fingerprint data, a fingerprint sensor for acquirin data representative of a second human fingerprint, and software for fingerprint verification. The apparatus can further include software for recognizing speech, generating speech and controlling animation of the articulated toy. In addition, the toy is capable of learning and storing information pertaining to each of said human users such as name, age, sex, favorite color, etc., and to interact with each of said human users on an individual basis, providing entertainment tailored specifically to each of said human users.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:08 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/28/06
7,020,626 Inside money
Issued: March 28, 2006
Filed: July 17, 2000
U.S. Class: 705/27
Abstract: A synthetic currency transaction network which performs transactions with near real time finality of transaction between potential borrowers and potential lenders. Synthetic currency is created by pooling and dividing into shares a portfolio of highly liquid assets and frequent evaluation and disbursements of dividends on those assets so as to hold the value of the synthetic currency share at unity with the underlying currency. The synthetic currency network provides for interfacing users to the synthetic currency transaction network. A database is used for storing and maintaining records and other information of the network. A transaction manager manages network users' accounts and all network transactions. A fund accountant manages network information regarding the synthetic currency. A deposit bank acts as custodian for the portfolio of highly liquid assets which underlie the synthetic currency. An investment manager manages the measure of synthetic currency and directs investment decisions. A loan accountant manages all lending and borrowing activities in the synthetic currency transaction network.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:05 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/28/06
7,020,778 Method for issuing an electronic identity
Issued: March 28, 2006
Filed: January 21, 2000
U.S. Class: 713/182
Abstract: A method for issuing an electronic identity based on previously certified electronic identity. This is accomplished by providing a method to use a previously certified identity to create another representational form for the same identity. This way the holder of a certificate can extend his or her already verified identity for other uses. The previously certified identity can be for instance so called mobile identity which is associated to a person's mobile terminal such as mobile phone. The person can show to certificate be his/her own by using the digital signature feature of the mobile terminal.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:00:31 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/28/06
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03/28/06
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03/28/06
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. is suing The Hershey Co., alleging the formulation of Hershey's Ice Breaker chewing gum violates a Wrigley patent, according to candybusinessinsider, an online candy industry news source. At issue is the use of Wrigley's patent on "chewing gum containing physiological cooling agents," according to the suit filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit asks the court to halt the sales of Ice Breaker gums and order Hershey to pay royalties to Wrigley on past sales.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:20:34 am into the following categories: In The News
03/28/06
Toshiba won a lawsuit against South Korean rival Hynix Semiconductor over patents for computer chips widely used in cell phones, digital cameras and portable music players.
The Tokyo District Court ruled Friday in favor of the Japanese electronics company, saying that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. had infringed on Toshiba Corp.'s patents related to NAND flash memory. The court ordered that sales of Hynix products found to be in violation be halted in Japan and ordered Hynix pay Toshiba 7.8 million yen ($67,000) in damages, Toshiba spokesman Makoto Yasuda said. In Seoul, Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker after Samsung Electronics Co., said it will appeal the ruling.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:19:40 am into the following categories: In The News
03/28/06
Entrust, Inc., a world leader in securing digital identities and information, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union on the grounds that the credit union has deployed an authentication solution for its customers which Entrust considers an infringement on its grid authentication patent. Entrust, Inc. holds a patent on this technology, and the credit union has deployed this technology without license from Entrust. While Addison Avenue's actions reinforce the value of grid authentication for protecting consumers from identity fraud, Entrust has a significant investment in the acquisition and commercialization of this technology and must protect its intellectual property rights. Grid authentication has seen rapid success as an innovative and cost-effective method for protecting the identities of consumers and employees.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:18:34 am into the following categories: In The News
03/28/06
Microsemi Corp. and Monolithic Power Systems Inc. on Monday said they settled a patent infringement lawsuit regarding liquid crystal display applications, but did not release details. The companies said in a joint statement that all claims have been dismissed in the case. In addition, as a result of this agreement, the companies are exploring the possibility of a working relationship.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:16:54 am into the following categories: In The News
03/21/06
7,013,522 Toothbrush assembly with sound generating function
Issued: March 21, 2006
Filed: November 4, 2002
U.S. Class: 15/105
Abstract: A toothbrush assembly with a sound generating function for providing excitement and entertainment to a user and for encouraging a young child to brush his or her teeth is provided. The toothbrush assembly has a contact-type switch and a sound generator. The contact-type switch has a swingable contact and generates a pulse when a power switch of the assembly is instantaneously closed for every swing of the swingable contact according to the tooth-brushing movement of a user. The sound generator has a counter for counting pulses from the contact-type switch and a sound recording and play back unit for generating a voice message or musical tone when the sum of the pulses counted by the counter reaches a predetermined value. The sound recording and play back unit of the sound generator outputs different voice messages or musical tones according to different predetermined values reached by the sum of the pulses counted by the counter.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:59:21 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/21/06
7,016,851 Systems and methods for preparation of an intellectual property filing in accordance with jurisdiction and/or agent specific requirements
Issued: March 21, 2006
Filed: September 30, 1999
U.S. Class: 705/1
Abstract: A facility has been developed whereby an applicant (or his representative) may file corresponding applications in multiple jurisdictions using multiple associates while automating the preparation of filings in accordance with jurisdiction- and/or associate-specific requirements and/or procedures. An intellectual property filing portal or hub is employed, which in some realizations is hosted on public, packet switched data network and communicates with both applicants (or representatives) and associates. The intellectual property filing portal facilitates selection, by applicants (or representatives) of particular jurisdictions and associates based at least in part on fee quotations in accordance with particulars of an intellectual property filing and in accordance with fee structures of the particular jurisdictions and foreign associates. In addition, the intellectual property filing portal facilitates registration of associate- and jurisdiction-specific form documents and fee schedules for at least partially automated preparation of formal documents.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:58:41 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/21/06
7,016,348 Method and system for direct access to web content via a telephone
Issued: March 21, 2006
Filed: August 28, 2001
U.S. Class: 370/389
Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing web audio content directly from audio processors to a telephone without requiring storage of the audio on a media server. In one embodiment, a switch and two stages of switching are used. The switch is coupled between at least one audio source and a network interface controller. A direct access controller is coupled to the audio sources, switch and network interface controller. The direct access controller establishes a first audio channel through the switch in a connection phase. The direct access controller establishes a second audio channel through the switch in an audio transport phase. In the audio transport phase, web audio content is transported directly from a remote web server to an audio source on the second audio channel and then from the audio source to the user of the telephone on the first audio channel. In another embodiment, a method and system for provides web video content directly from processors to a telephone without requiring storage of the video on a media server.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 11:57:57 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/21/06
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03/21/06
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03/21/06
Azul Systems, a company selling hardware to run Java programs, has sued Sun Microsystems in a dispute about software patent fees and royalties. The start-up filed for declaratory relief Wednesday "to protect the interests of the company in the face of unfounded allegations from Sun Microsystems". Azul says the larger company threatened to sue if it didn't pay an "exorbitant" amount, giving Sun part ownership. Azul wants a judge in the Northern California region's US District Court to declare a judgment against Sun that Azul doesn't infringe a list of 20 Sun patents or that those patents are invalid, according to a complaint the company said it filed Tuesday. Several of those patents involve processors running multiple tasks at once — a technology Sun and Azul both are pursuing through development of multicore chips.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:22:18 am into the following categories: In The News
03/21/06
Austrian company Lubar and its CEO, Yaakov Rafaeli of Rishon LeZion, have filed a lawsuit with the Tel Aviv District Court against Playtech Cyprus Ltd. for patent infringement relating to its system and method for remote online gambling at actual casinos. Playtech, controlled by Teddy Sagi, develops technology for online gambling sites and provides services to online gambling operators.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:19:55 am into the following categories: In The News
03/21/06
Oracle says it has won a summary judgment in a patent-infringement suit in New Hampshire concerning its clustered database software. Oracle says that should end MangoSoft's claims against the company. Oracle says it will now proceed on its claims that MangoSoft's patent is invalid and unenforceable. The U-S District Court in Concord ruled in favor of Oracle on its motion for summary judgment that it didn't infringe a patent held by MangoSoft of Nashua.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 03:18:40 am into the following categories: In The News
03/14/06
7,011,527 Negative gravity therapeutic methods
Issued: March 14, 2006
Filed: December 27, 2002
U.S. Class: 434/262
Abstract: A sleeping method for a participant having a foot end and a head end including 1)providing a sleeping surface having upper and lower ends, the sleeping surface inclined at least 10-25 degrees from the upper end to the lower end, 2)providing a predetermined unit of time having successive nightly sleep periods, and 3)the participant sleeping on the sleeping surface in a head down position for at least half or other portion of the successive nightly sleep periods, the head down position comprising the participant laying down on the sleeping surface with the legs and feet of the participant disposed toward the upper end of the sleeping surface and the head end of the participant disposed toward the lower end of the sleeping surface, in which the feet end of the participant is upward relative to the head end of the participant.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:29 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/14/06
7,013,238 System for delivering recommendations
Issued: March 14, 2006
Filed: July 15, 2003
U.S. Class: 702/182
Abstract: A system for generating recommendations which automatically optimizes over time without human intervention is disclosed. While known recommendation systems tended to be either attribute based or collaborative filtering based, the present system adjusts its internal parameters in response to the measured performance of the recommendations as determined by user behavior. In one embodiment, the user provides feedback in the form of ratings for the recommendations. This feedback is processed and then utilized to adjust the internal parameters of the system. Over time, the system settles on optimal parameter values.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:55:59 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/14/06
7,013,127 Systems and methods for employing "pay-as-you-go" telecommunication services
Issued: March 14, 2006
Filed: January 7, 2003
U.S. Class: 455/406
Abstract: Telecommunication services systems and methods are disclosed. The telecommunication services systems and methods preferably enable the user and/or the responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services. The systems and methods may also be employed to provide the user and/or the responsible party with specialized pricing options and other customized services.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:55:17 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/14/06
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03/14/06
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03/14/06
SRU Biosystems Inc. has lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Corning Inc. over an optical biomedical sensor. A federal judge in Delaware Thursday awarded a permanent injunction against Woburn, Mass.-based SRU Biosystems Inc., agreeing with the optical fiber maker's claims that SRU had violated its exclusive license to develop the technology from Artificial Sensing Instruments ASI AG of Switzerland. A permanent injunction requires an infringer to cease all activities involving the manufacture, use, sale or promoiton of the product in dispute.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:53:56 am into the following categories: In The News
03/14/06
Last week, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Sony had not proven that patent holder Immersion attempted to conceal information in its dispute with Sony over vibrating game controllers. Sony is therefore not entitled, she ruled, to relief from a judgment that it violated Immersion's patents. In 2004, Sony lost a patent infringement case brought by Immersion, which licenses technology called "haptics" that allow game controllers and other devices to vibrate in response to events such as getting tackled during a game of "Madden NFL 2006."
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:52:45 am into the following categories: In The News
03/14/06
Allergan Inc., known for Botox but also a maker of eye care products, and eye care company Alcon Inc. said Thursday that they agreed to settle two lawsuits over patent infringement charges. Both lawsuits were filed by Allergan. The first, filed in Delaware, involved patents covering Allergan's Alphagan glaucoma treatment. Allergan charged that Alcon violated patents by pursuing products that contained brimonidine, the active ingredient in Alphagan.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:51:54 am into the following categories: In The News
03/14/06
Intermec Inc., the company known as Unova Inc. until January, said it settled a lawsuit filed against Hewlett-Packard Co. over batteries used in notebook computers. The accord will add $14 million to $18 million to Intermec's operating profit after legal costs, the Everett, Washington-based company said today in regulatory filing. Terms are confidential. Intermec sued Hewlett-Packard in federal court in Los Angeles in 2002, five days after Hewlett-Packard bought Compaq Computer Corp. Hewlett-Packard claimed it was covered under a settlement Intermec had reached with Compaq. An appeals court said in 2004 the suit should proceed. Court documents list the suit as settled on Feb. 27, the day a judge ruled against Intermec on the expiration date of a patent in the case.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 02:51:05 am into the following categories: In The News
03/07/06
7,010,110 Method and apparatus for monitoring telephone status
Issued: March 7, 2006
Filed: March 5, 2002
U.S. Class: 379/207.04
Abstract: The monitor is for monitoring the status of a first client telephone, and for sending this status information via a central server to an authorized second client telephone. The central server stores a database of registered client telephones and corresponding client telephones that the client may monitor. A user of a registered client telephone monitors in real time the telephone status of registered friends, family, or co-workers that have agreed to be monitored by the user.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:46 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/07/06
7,009,097 Guitar strap
Issued: March 7, 2006
Filed: May 6, 2004
U.S. Class: 84/327
Abstract: An apparatus securable about a waist of an operator and for supporting a guitar at select positions includes a belt and a pair of selectively engageable end portions extending substantially parallel thereto. The belt further has a central portion integral with the opposed end portions and is disposed substantially medially of an abdominal area of an operator. The apparatus further includes a plurality of adjustable support members secured to the central portion. The plurality of support members include a plurality of hook sections connected thereto for receiving select portions of a guitar to thereby allow a user to maintain a guitar at a substantially stable position during operating conditions while relieving pressure from a user's back and shoulders.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 10:56:00 am into the following categories: Patents of the Day
03/07/06
7,010,397 Utilization by a vehicle of wireless data from intelligent street signs
Issued: March 7, 2006
Filed: May 25, 2005
U.S. Class: 701/1
Abstract: An exemplary vehicular apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver adapted for receipt of signals transmitted from intelligent street signs. A computer receives recovered digital data from the receiver, where the digital data represents information contained in the signals received by the receiver. The computer parses the digital data into separate fields and identifies a first field containing a first value that represents a predetermined type of vehicle for which the information contained in the other fields is relevant. The computer compares the first value with a stored value in memory to determine if the information contained in the other fields is relevant to the vehicle and recovers the information contained in the other fields if it is determined that the other fields are relevant to the vehicle.
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03/07/06
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03/07/06
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03/07/06
Research In Motion Inc. (RIM) will be allowed to keep its hugely popular BlackBerry service going south of the border after reaching a settlement in a long, bitter patent dispute. The Canadian company announced late Friday that it has agreed to pay NPT Inc., a U.S.-patent holding firm, $612.5 million US to settle the high-profile patent infringement case. In the court battle which lasted more than four years, the Virginia-based NTP had accused RIM of improperly using NTP patents in the BlackBerry portable e-mail device. "All terms of the agreement have been finalized and the litigation against RIM has been dismissed by a court order this afternoon," said RIM in a press release. "RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in full and final settlement of all claims against RIM, as well as for a perpetual, fully-paid up license going forward."
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:04:16 am into the following categories: In The News
03/07/06
Computer maker Gateway has agreed to pay Hewlett-Packardtotal of $47 million to settle patent infringement claims, and arrange for the two companies to cross-license each other's patent portfolios for seven years. Gateway will pay $25 million within a week of the agreement being finalized, with the other $22 million to be paid one year later. According to Gateway, $16.7 million of the payment is to resolve patent dispute involving Gateway PCs manufactured from 1999 to the present. Gateway admits to no fault or wrongdoing.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:03:19 am into the following categories: In The News
03/07/06
Shire PLC said its Shire Laboratories Inc unit has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc for alleged infringement of two of Shire's US patents. A statement from Shire said the lawsuit results from an Abbreviated New Drug Application filed by Teva for generic versions of Adderall XR, Shire's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medicine.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:02:17 am into the following categories: In The News
03/07/06
IMX, Inc., a leading provider of technology solutions for the mortgage industry, announced that it has received a favorable jury verdict in its intellectual property case against LendingTree, LLC in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, finding willful infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,995,947. The patent provides an Internet-accessible, interactive, real-time network whereby borrowers and lenders exchange information in the pursuit of securing a loan.
Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:01:23 am into the following categories: In The News
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