Patent Challenged:

7979277

Description:

Unified Patents is seeking prior art on at least Claim 15 of US-7979277-B2. The patent in question is owned by Zentian, an NPE. The '277 patent generally relates to a speech recognition circuit comprising a circuit for providing state identifiers which identify states corresponding to nodes or groups of adjacent nodes in a lexical tree, and for providing scores corresponding to said state identifiers, the lexical tree comprising a model of words; a memory structure for receiving and storing state identifiers identified by a node identifier identifying a node or group of adjacent nodes, said memory structure being adapted to allow lookup to identify particular state identifiers, reading of the scores corresponding to the state identifiers, and writing back of the scores to the memory structure after modification of the scores; an accumulator for receiving score updates corresponding to particular state identifiers from a score update generating circuit which generates the score updates using audio input, for receiving scores from the memory structure, and for modifying said scores by adding said score updates to said scores; and a selector circuit for selecting at least one node or group of adjacent nodes of the lexical tree according to said scores. The '277 patent has been asserted against Apple and Amazon. The link for litigation can be found here: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/litigation/caselist?patents=7979277&sort=-filed_date APEX STANDARDS has shared prior US patent art, non-US patent art, and Non-Patent Literature art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent. Interested professionals may take them and craft work product from there. The link can be found here: https://www.apexstandards.com/pcc/US7979277B2_construction/ https://www.apexstandards.com/pcc/US7979277B2_invalidity/ Traindex is a machine learning enabled search service. They have provided an ordered list of most semantically similar patent documents. The results are filtered to include only results with the publication date preceding that of the patent being challenged. The link can be found here: https://www.traindex.io/prior-art/US-7979277-B2 Techson IP has provided its Full validity-focused Limestone|Report https://www.limestonereport.com/ which includes: a list of highly relevant prior art patent leads - individually ranked to the claims and tiered by research efficiency; summary predictive analytics about the search; a full CPC technology profile. Interested professionals may take them and craft work products from there. The Full Report link is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/report.limestoneip.com/YxGmFvtymgvZeaGkJYANXO.full.html InQuartik is a patent intelligence company that doesn't simply deliver patent data — it makes the data understandable, too. InQuartik has developed an automated prior art search solution — Quality Insights by Patentcloud. With its advanced Family Prior Art and Semantic Prior Art features, users can expose a patent's weakness and critical validity issues faster and more effectively. A 7-day free trial is available, which includes access to a staggering 100 patent validity reports. The link can be found here: https://app.patentcloud.com/unified-patents-semantic-prior-art.html?appNumber=11/662704&affiliateSource=UnifiedPatents IPscreener shows an AI generated list of relevant prior art also helping Patroll searchers to faster read and understand of documents found by highlighting relevant passages. Access is free for the exploring the contest case, to view, comment and export identified texts. The link can be found here: https://my.ipscreener.com/#doc_35200 View the Similar Documents (patents + scholarly publications) generated by Google Patents: Patents: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS7979277B2&before=filing:20040914 NPL: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS7979277B2&before=filing:20040914&patents=false&scholar ** PLEASE READ THE RULES FOR THIS CONTEST BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE. ** ** TO QUALIFY FOR CONSIDERATION, A CLAIM CHART IS REQUIRED. ** ** PLEASE USE THE PROVIDED CLAIM CHART AS A TEMPLATE ** ** PRIOR ART THAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CITED DURING PROSECUTION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. **

Start Date: Fri May 27 2022 13:00:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

End Date: Fri Sep 30 2022 13:00:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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