Areas of current development include:

FairPay:  Digital commerce based on customer dialogs about value

• FairPay is a radical approach to monetizing digital offerings in the context of an ongoing relationship.

• FairPay shifts price setting to buyers and develops a buyer FairPay reputation based on Internet feedback.  This enables sellers to manage a cooperative process that goes beyond "freemium," to a far more efficient and dynamically adaptive hybrid of free and paid offerings. 

• FairPay can be applied to digital content, software and/or services (as well as physical products) in a wide variety of ways.

• The first commercial use of FairPay was announced by ennovent on 9/14/11.

CoTV™ - linking Web browsing to TV viewing
– pushing links to your browser that relate to what you are watching on your TV.

• CoTV™ exploits the fact that many users now watch TV on a large screen, while multitasking on a "companion" device (tablet, phone, or laptop).

• CoTV™ presents a huge opportunity to enhance the user experience by coordinating access to cross-device content that makes use of both screens

• CoTV™ creates highly profitable cross-device advertising opportunities that link the TV to direct response on the Web – and that makes ads more relevant and useful to consumers.
• Just imagine that Google  – or Facebook – or any other Web service – knew what you were watching on TV...It is starting to happen now...
• The first three Reisman CoTV patents issued in 2011-12.

Search and the Social Web and Semantic Web
A portfolio of patents relating to search (sold).

• One patent that issued in 2005, relating to search and the "Semantic Web", plus three patents that issued 2006-2208, relating to search and the “Social Web” or "Social Search"
• This portfolio was sold on 7/6/09 to RPX Corporation, the first defensive patent aggregator

Internet push distribution and software update
A portfolio of patents relating to Internet push distribution and software update (sold).

• This technology relates to many Internet push applications, such as content channels, offline browsing, RSS, electronic software distribution, and webcasting, as well as aspects of "smart-client" Web services, the mobile Web, and e-commerce.
• The portfolio was licensed to BTG for commercialization – it includes seven patents issued in 1997-2004, plus some issued since, and others still pending.
• BTG's licensing efforts led to patent infringement suits against Microsoft and Apple
• On 3/31/06, BTG announced the sale of these patent rights for $35 million, plus a share of future profits, and that BTG and Teleshuttle would no longer pursue those suits.  These patents are now controlled by Intellectual Ventures.

Other active developments in such areas as "Big Data," Social Web collaboration, and digital media management are listed on the Patents page.