Prior
Art!
After some additional
debate, it has been decided that prior art leads should be posted
for all to see, but removing any specific details to protect the
defendants case.
Defense attorneys,
feel free to contact me at brandon@fightthepatent.com
I will share
with you the details of the found prior art, for no compensation.
Anyone wishing
contribute prior art finds/leads of can contact me.
Pandora
Pandora's box
is a video processing peripheral for a workstation or PC. This document
describes the model of Pandora's internal workings which is exposed
to this host computer. The host sends requests to Pandora, and receives
a reply to each one before sending the next request. Pandora can
send
asynchronous events to the host independently of these request-reply
interactions. Pandora and the host can also asynchronously exchange
data such as bit-map images and digitised audio.
(Pandora may
not be a silver bullet for prior art, but it does show what experts
in the field were doing at the time, which goes towards nonobviousness.)
Watch the video
by scrolling down on this
page to the very bottom to look for Pandora
Envisionment (July 1989) (found by Squirt)
Digitzed
Video [Amiga] (1986-1989)
True video created
by an Amiga video editing program. Files were downloadable from
their company BBS and other BBS. (found by gateway)
Digitized
Audio [DOS] (1988)
A DOS-based
program that would play back digitized words and phrases. Found
a SYSOP that still runs the BBS since 1988 to verify the validity
of the datestamp. SYSOP willing to provide expert witness testimony
Digitized
Audio/Video [DOS] (1988)
Found the owner
of a file format that had audio/video capabilities. The format was
widely used and available. Owner willing to provide testimony
Digitized
Audio [MAC] (1988)
Found developer
of sound player that was widely used on Mac. Developer willing to
provide testimony.
Voice Messaging
(1977 - 1978)
In 1977-78,
an experimental system in which "voice messages" were
transmitted from an originating packet voice terminal in the form
of live, compressed, packet audio over the ARPAnet to a storage
system at CCA. The audio was stored in compressed form. These voice
messages could be later be retrieved by the intended recipient connecting
to the storage system and requesting real-time playback of the stored
audio across the ARPAnet to the recipient's packet voice terminal.
The packet voice terminal was based on a PDP11 minicomputer; the
personal computers of that era were 8080's with quite limited capabilities.
Digitized Video [Amiga, DOS]
(1989)
File format
that utilized digital images to create a movie presentation. (found
by fiveeyes)
Digitized
Video [Amiga] (1987)
File format
that
reads up to 100 images (IFF format only) and allows you to display
them rapidly in succession, producing an effect similar to animation."
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