WINNER ANNOUNCED: https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2023/10/3/fortress-entity-entropic-communications-prior-art-found Unified Patents is seeking prior art on at least claim 1 on US-9838213-B2. The patent is owned by Entropic Communications, a Softbank Entity. The patent generally relates to a communication system and method including the steps of receiving a first request to initiate a guaranteed quality of service flow in a network, broadcasting a second request from a Network Coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to the network and receiving a first response to the second request from at least one ingress node. The method further includes receiving a second response to the second request from at least one egress node indicating whether the at least one egress node has available resources to receive the guaranteed quality of service flow and allocating resources for the guaranteed quality of service flow if the at least one ingress node has available resources to transmit, and the at least one egress node has available resources to receive, the guaranteed quality of service flow.For more information on the patent see: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-9838213-B2 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/US9838213B2_construction_vis_a_vis_charting_v_prior_art/ 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/tWlIzHxawuHSlhcTeff58j.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=12/027202&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/token/1EqsJPVPx3Wr7sQUp6BDVk View the Similar Documents (patents + scholarly publications) generated by Google Patents: Patents: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS9838213B2&before=filing:20070206 NPL: https://patents.google.com/?q=~patent%2fUS9838213B2&before=filing:20070206&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. **