PATNEWS: $5000 anti-Sightsound prior art collection available
Gregory Aharonian
Since it is growingly apparent I am never going to get paid to fix
the generally dysfunctional software patent system, I am left to my own
resources to exploit the resulting nonsense and hypocrisy :-) For some
patents I am being contacted enough times to start offering COTS (a
silly DoD term - commercial off the shelf) collections of prior art to
help either victims or investors deal with some of the crazy finances
behind certain software patents and the companies trying to exploit them.
In general these collections are either for companies the target of an
assertion of dubious software patents, considering licensing dubious
software patents, or investing in (or shorting the stock of) companies
owning dubious software patents.
One patent is close enough to a final squash for me to offer it as
the first collection, and is devoted to two patents being shopped around
by their owners, Sightsound, the Hair audio/video downloading patents,
5,191,573 and a continuation, 5,675,734 (abstract and claim of the '573
patent follows). Why dubious? [CHORUS] No non-patent prior art was cited
[CHORUS-OFF] for a 1988-filed signal downloading over a network patent.
Apparently, not only did the SightSound people not check the general
validity of the patents before they acquired them, they haven't done much
checking since then as they go out seeking licensees. It is the same
questionable strategy used by the NetWord people with their crappy patent
on Internet address mapping. Why can't I find investors like that?
Anyways, the collection of prior art materials is available for a fee
of $5000, and with a few more subscribers to this collection, there will
be plenty of funding to shred the patents' claims into confetti, providing
at least one use of the patents. For more information, contact me. In
general, the fee for these collections includes the initial collection of
prior art (mostly non-patent), plus any followup prior art found.
Other collections are under preparation, including two for different
Walker Asset/Priceline patents, one for Novadigm (being asserted against
Marimba), Cybergold, NetCentives and a few others. The Priceline and
Marimba collections will be of interest to investors following their
recent successful IPO offerings.
Greg Aharonian
Internet Patent News Service
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5191573
Method for transmitting a desired digital video or audio signal
Hair
Continued from filing of 13 Jun 1988
Abstract:
The present invention is a method for transmitting a desired digital
video or audio signal stored on a first memory of a first party to a second
memory of a second party. The method comprises the steps of transferring
money via a telecommunications line to the first party from the second
party. Additionally, the method comprises the step of then connecting
electronically via a telecommunications line the first memory with the
second memory such that the desired signal can pass therebetween. Next,
there is the step of transmitting the desired digital signal from the
first memory with a transmitter in control and in possession of the first
party to a receiver having the second memory at a location determined by
the second party. The receiver is in possession and in control of the
second party. There is also the step of then storing the digital signal
in the second memory.
I claim:
1. A method for transmitting a desired digital audio signal stored on
a first memory of a first party to a second memory of a second party
comprising the steps of:
* transferring money electronically via a telecommunication lien to the
first party at a location remote from the second memory and controlling
use of the first memory from the second party financially distinct from
the first party, said second party controlling use and in possession
of the second memory;
* connecting electronically via a telecommunications line the first
memory with the second memory such that the desired digital audio signal
can pass therebetween;
* transmitting the desired digital audio signal from the first memory
with a transmitter in control and possession of the first party to a
receiver having the second memory at a location determined by the second
party, said receiver in possession and control of the second party; and
* storing the digital signal in the second memory.