Patent portfolios that are pending and/or issued include work relating to the following areas.  24 patents have been awarded, with dozens more pending.  Well over 100 companies have licensed one or more of these patents.

• Internet push distribution and software update (issued+pending, sold) - the portfolio that was licensed to BTG for commercialization, and which includes eight patents issued in 1997-2010, plus others still pending.  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, e-commerce, and other advanced Internet services. 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 to Twintech E.U. LLC for a down payment of $35 million, plus a share of future profits, and that BTG and Teleshuttle would no longer pursue those suits. BTG stated at the time that "TwinTech E.U. has the skills and resource to create value from these patents which we believe should be licensed by a range of software application providers." These patents are now controlled by Intellectual Ventures.
  Updates:
  --Additional patents issued 1/26/10 3/6/12 that relate to disc/online hybrids that link CDs or DVDs with online services, such as with the Blu-ray BD-Live feature or in video games with online adjuncts.  Delivering such services was Teleshuttle's original business, as exemplified by the 1995 Blockbuster Video Guide CD-ROM, with its Teleshuttle online update feature.
  --An additional patent issued 9/20/11 and relates to providing and receiving application-specific information, services, and software component elements over a network.
  --On 10/6/11 two of these patents were asserted by an Intellectual Ventures entity is a patent infringement suit against Motorola Mobility.
  --An additional patent issued 11/29/11 and relates to providing and receiving content over a wireless communication system, including off-line presentation of stored retrieved content.
  --Two additional patents issued 11/27/12 and 3/26/13 relating to software update.
   

• Search and the Social Web and the Semantic Web (issued+pending, sold) – with some objectives relating to the Social Web and structured application of user feedback, browsing by object name, knowledge of task/domains, and knowledge of the Semantic Web (including six patents issued 2005-2012, with others pending). Sold 7/6/09 to RPX Corporation, the first defensive patent aggregator. As of 5/12, these patents have been licensed to 112 companies, including many household names.
   

• Coactive TV (issued+pending) – a power assist for simultaneous ("coactive") TV + Web use, which has been in early commercial development by Teleshuttle, with strategic partners being sought.  Related offerings by others are emerging and this market appears poised to scale rapidly.  Extensive information on CoTV is provided on this Web site.   Very extensive patent filings address a wide range of advanced Internet TV/Web features, including use with one and two screens (coactive companion devices such as tablets or phones), advanced enhancements to TV, and other features.
  Update: The first three patents in this portfolio issued 3/1/11, 7/26/11, and 4/17/12, with others pending.
   

• "Big Data" / "The Internet of Things" / Product usage data and ratings:  network-based collection, exchange, and analysis (issued+pending)  – including data from intelligent appliances, with some objectives relating to improved breadth and depth of collection and analysis and characterization of usage, and to new business models for associated data services.  Very extensive patent filings address a range of applications related to products, smart devices, energy efficiency, asset management and other emerging applications.  The first two patent in this portfolio issued in 2008 and 2011, with others pending.
   

• Digital media storage management / "Progressive Deletion" (issued+pending) – with some objectives relating to trade-offs of quality versus space that may change after items are first stored.  This enables an entirely new capability to "squeeze more in" to a "full" storage device, by increasing compression (such as in a video camera/smartphone or a DVR).  Other aspects of this portfolio relate to management of multi-level local and remote storage archives, including cloud services.  The first three patents in this portfolio issued in 2010-13, with others pending.
   

• Social Web collaboration:  The Idea Adoption Agency / Marketplace (pending) – relating to open online communities and marketplace exchanges for ideas and Intellectual property development – with some objectives relating to the open collaborative support of development for early stage ideas, and to nurturing and capturing value for ideas that might otherwise be abandoned. Also addressed more broadly are advanced methods for collaboration and reputation management. This work is believed to offer considerable value to society.  Plans for services based on this work are in very early development, and strategic partners/sponsors are sought.
   

• FairPay – an entirely new approach to pricing for digital content/services in the context of an ongoing relationship, based on customer dialogs about value. 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 content. FairPay was presented 12/1/11 at an MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC symposium on "Better Strategies for Monetizing Digital Offerings," and discussions with potential strategic partners are in progress.

Inquiries from potential strategic partners are invited

4/16/13 - 27th patent issues

5/22/12 - Sixth Search patent issues

4/17/12 - Third CoTV patent issues

2/15/12 - Reisman presentation on patents at MIT Enterprise Forum

11/29/11  - Patent relating to retrieving and storing content from wireless networks issues

10/11/11  - Second patent relating to collection of product usage data issues

9/20/11    - Second progressive deletion storage management patent issues

9/20/11    - Patent relating to downloading application-specific software components issues

7/26/11    - Second CoTV patent issues

4/26/11    - Intellectual Ventures interviews Reisman for Inventor Profile

3/1/11     - CoTV patent issues

7/6/10     - Progressive deletion storage management patent issues

1/26/10   - Patent relating to disc/online hybrids (the original Teleshuttle business) issues

7/6/09     - Reisman search patent portfolio is sold

12/2/08   - Fourth search-related patent issues

7/29/08   - Patent relating to collection of product usage data issues

6/13/06   - Two search-related patents issue

3/31/06   - BTG Sells Teleshuttle Patent Rights To Twintech E.U. for $35MM+

10/11/05 - First search patent issues

7/20/04   - BTG and Teleshuttle Sue Microsoft and Apple for Infringement of Patent for Online Software Updates

7/20/04   - BTG and Teleshuttle Sue Microsoft for Infringement of Patents for Active Desktop and Offline Browsing Technologies

9/1/98     - BTG Expands Its Internet Technology Portfolio With the Acquisition Of a Fundamental Internet Push Distribution Technology

Inventor Background / Mission

Richard Reisman's mission relates to creating new and more effective services for people across the broad field of connectivity--powerful interactive tools and media for human communication, collaboration, knowledge work, entertainment, and commerce. 

This includes various combinations of man-machine symbiosis and machine-augmented human communications -- as well as the new cultural, media, and business opportunities they enable.  Pervasive themes are user empowerment and collaboration, and the effective application of globally networked communities and machine intelligence to support that.

This work draws on a decades of thinking about new media combined with diversified practical information technology and business experience – and on a visionary mind-set tempered by a sense for effectiveness honed by training in analytical methods for optimization (see bio).  Reisman also has a broad interest in the creative process and the business of  innovation – and organized and moderated a symposium on "Patents for Dot-coms" for the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC in April 2000.

To put a personal arc on this history, Reisman became a believer in new media and e-business in the '60's, but realized that he had to wait and pursue a day job in IT through the '70s and '80s.  He moved full-time into new media at the start of the '90s, as the stars (and infrastructure) aligned for the rest of the world to awaken. 

All of this is with homage to the visions of Bush (Vannevar), Licklider, Engelbart, Nelson, and Turoff that drove this continuing arc of development.