Updated:

17-Nov-2003

 

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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