Areas of current development include:

FairPay: The Future of a Radical Pricing Process

FairPay is a radical approach to pricing for digital media content. 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 dynamically adaptive hybrid of free and paid content.

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 wireless laptop, phone, or other mobile device.

• 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...

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”
• 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 e-commerce.
• The portfolio was licensed to BTG for commercialization – it includes seven patents issued in 1997-2004, plus 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