Richard R. Reisman - Biography
President and founder of Teleshuttle
Corporation,
Richard Reisman is an innovator and thought leader in developing new media technologies.
Reisman has been involved with
interactivity,
hypermedia,
and electronic communities since their infancy. He has always been oriented to connectivity
-- powerful interactive tools and media for human communication,
collaboration, knowledge work, commerce, and entertainment.
Reisman has worked in a variety of technology and
business roles, including as developer, consultant, and manager, and more
recently as entrepreneur and inventor. He has been developing a number of
patent portfolios relating to media and
e-business technologies, both directly and through strategic partners, and has
more than a dozen issued patents and a couple dozen more pending.
In early 2010 Reisman began
development of
FairPay, a radical approach to pricing for digital media
content. FairPay develops a buyer reputation based on Internet
feedback, to go beyond "freemium," to an adaptive hybrid of free and
paid content. Another
current focus of direct activity is on the
development of
CoTV™, coactive television, a power
assist for the growing trend toward simultaneous, or “coactive,” use
of TV and the Web. CoTV™
creates a powerful new compound medium that combines the full power
of both (on 1, 2, or 3-screens).
Other current areas of independent development and patent filings
include data exchange for product usage data and ratings (with one
patent issued in 2008), digital media storage management, and
The Idea Adoption Agency (communities/marketplaces for
collaborative innovation and idea development).
One of his patent portfolios
was developed in partnership with BTG International, a leading
technology commercialization and licensing firm, and six
additional patents that strengthen that
portfolio were awarded in 2000-2004. That led to patent
infringement suits against Microsoft and
Apple
in 2004, and in 2006
those patents were sold for a down payment of $35 million.
A second important portfolio of patents relates to
search, with four patents issued in 2005-08. This
portfolio was sold in 2009 to RPX Corporation, the first defensive
patent aggregator.
Teleshuttle
develops
new media and business technologies and
also provides strategic consulting services for media and
electronic business. Clients have included Dow Jones, News Corporation/TVGuide,
IDD Information Services, and AppliedTheory Communications, as well as key
players in intellectual property development. Reisman founded Teleshuttle
in 1994 as an online software/service provider based on one of his inventions.
Teleshuttle's most widely known product was the online update service that was
integrated with the Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos
CD-ROM to provide updates on newly released films.
Reisman also served during the dot-com boom as founding
CTO and Managing Director, Operations and Technology for HealthSCOUT.com,
an innovative Web-based B2B2C health information service.
There, he delivered Web services through syndicated co-brand affiliations with
hundreds of Web sites, including CompuServe, Prodigy, Yahoo!, Earthlink, Dr.
Koop, iVillage, Snap, iWon, USA Today, Knight-Ridder, Scripps, Phys (Conde-Nast),
BeWell (HealthGate), Physicians Online, and through insurance sites, including Harvard
Pilgrim and the US Government, managing a staff of 25+ and budget of $5+
million. (details)
In the early '90s, Reisman made technology and
entrepreneurial contributions to a variety of online and new media developments.
As co-founder of UNET, he developed the original versions of TV Guide
Online
(through consumer beta test) in a joint venture with News Corp.
At BASELINE
(since acquired by The New York
Times), he developed pioneering consumer online
services, as well as online information services to the film and TV industry.
His earlier work was in large enterprise IT
environments, focused on leading-edge development in such areas as interactive
systems, online networks, and database search. Varied
roles in IT and information services included management, consulting, planning,
development, and operations. He directed electronic distribution
operations for financial data for
McGraw-Hill / Standard and Poor's, and managed strategy, planning, and
operations for a very broad variety of major computer and telecom services at
Mobil Corporation
and AT&T, starting out as a software developer.
A finalist for the Multi-Media Entrepreneur of 1995
award from the Silicon Alley Initiative, Reisman has spoken widely, and written
for a variety of trade publications. He serves as an Executive Board member of
the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC, for whom he has organized numerous
symposia, was an ACM National Lecturer, and holds an AB from
Brown University and an MS from Lehigh University.
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