Settlement agreement between Music Choice and Stingray Digital Music Choice vs Stingray Settlement arrives right before trial. This case has been analyzed by our experts from two angles: ♠ Technology Aspects of Infringement and Validity ♠ Damages and Liability   On February 4th, 2020,  Music Choice announced that has settled the case for around $13.3M, [...]

Damages Reports with Loss Profits : Non-Infringing Alternatives and  Reasonable Royalty January 27, 2020 by wincho wincho No comments yet FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppRedditDiggHacker NewsEvernoteLiveJournalSlashdotSaveEmailShare0 Damages Reports with Loss Profits require a set of guidelines to meet, specially the absence of Non-Infringing Alternatives. Non-Infringing Alternatives are important when determining damages and what is called,  the Panduit Test. Damages [...]

Content Monetization in Cable TV For TV, Video and Music Content Monetization on Cable TV systems has been very important por revenues. Cloud to cable brings your Music, TV & Video content to a different level, effectively raising content’s value proposition to all your customers, now Cable TV companies and hence their millions of subscribers. [...]

5G Handover4G LTE handover was called X2 and S1, in 5G NR are called XN and N2 5G has come close to standardization with many news from Verizon and T-Mobile regarding deployments and acquisitions specially with NOKIA. ♦ NOKIA inks deal with T-Mobile for $3.5B (Press Release) ♦ Verizon and Nokia competete 5G NR Mobility Call (Press [...]

X2 Handover:  How does it work? An X2 Handover is used by LTE as well as S1 handovers for User Equipment (“UE”) or mobile phone mobility. First and foremost,  LTE and 5G both share an ALL-IP Architecture. In the past, in UMTS systems or even older systems, mobility consisted in several layers of IuB interfaces [...]

Smartphone Expert Witness Our team of engineers have worked in companies like Motorola Mobility,  Microsoft, Blackberry, Nokia, and many other phone manufacturers.  Dr. Edwin Hernandez has licensed some of his technologies to major phone manufacturers. Among the patents that we can list that are related to mobile devices and wireless systems, we have MobileCAD, MobileIPP, [...]

Cloud to Cable Patent Officially Issued (2nd Patent)The new patent also covering "Cloud to Cable TV" was issued on December 11th, 2019. What does Cloud to Cable Patent Covers? Cloud to Cable is a patented solution for music streaming providers to distribute content to MVPDs. Amplify your ooffering from online streaming to Cable TV & [...]

IPR Consultants We have experience assisting clients as IPRs consultants.  IPRs are now used as defense during patent infringement cases.  During the IPR process, we will be  evaluating prior-art and preparing reports for either a Patent Owner or a Petitioner.  Invalidity and infringement will have to be considered as both could be greatly affected by [...]

Introduction I will start quoting, MultiChannel article that describes the genesis of this dispute.. Stingray and Music Choice have a long history. In 2015, Music Choice sued Stingray for patent infringement after AT&T U-verse dropped Music Choice in favor of the Canadian company. Music Choice had claimed that Stingray’s service included digital audio music and […]

Technical Expert Witness for Intellectual Property and Patent Cases ☛ University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. et. al. vs. Motorola Mobility LLC.Filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida – Case settled ☛  Virtela Technology Services vs. Andrew Funk, File in the US District Court of Denver, Colorado, Representing Andrew Funk – Case Settled [...]

Why Cloud to Cable? Cloud to Cable is a patented solution for music streaming providers to distribute content to MVPDs. Amplify your offering from online streaming to Cable TV & IPTV systems with linear channels and SVOD subscritions. Create visually appealing streams with great sound, bundled with a mobile experience through the MEVIA app. Music […]

Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez will be attending a judge for the Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. Stay tuned for coverage from TECHED.tv

This analysis only works when Panduit testfails for a computation of loss profits and only works for a reasonable royalty damagers model. I personally submitted a damages report in a the case: Mobility Workx, LLC vs Cellco Partnership aka Verizon Wireless in the E.D. Texas, and Judge Mazzant ordered me to present it to a jury […]

Cloud to Cable Second Patent Allowed Besides US Patent 10,123,074 a new patent is allowed within the same family. A second set of claims were allowed on September 3rd, 2019 and that means that several claims that cover MPEG TV and Music broadcasting, MPEG 2-way communications, HTTP Live Streaming broadcasting, and fault-tolerance for carriers. The [...]

What is an IPR? IPR is an intellectual property process called "Inter-Parties Review" or IPR. This process includes a "Petitioner," a company filing a petition,  and a "Patent Owner" that owns a disputed patent. The "Petitioner" files this petition because it believes a "Patent Owner" (PO) owns an invalid patent, and decides to challenge its [...]

Artificial Intelligence in 4G and 5G Systems At the Mobile World Congress 2019, I found many interesting things, first and foremost many robots, AI, and not only as demonstrations in general but well-connected to 5G systems, and being in use for all new concepts, “Edge Computing” being one of them and many others as failure […]

Cloud to Cable TV is the platform that makes it easy to send music channels, video channels, video on demand, and any other multimedia streaming content to millions of subscribers.  Cloud to Cable enables a friendly distribution system for media owners, content providers, to subscribers in IPTV, Cable TV, OTT, or even satellite operators. We […]

US Patent 10,123,074 Today, the US Pat 10,123,074 issued for Cloud to Cable, after a provisional was filed December 2014. This patent covers the currently commercialized Cloud to Cable TV system.  The process was not that long, considering that the initial firm, NOVAK DRUCE was disbanded and I had to transfer the case to Greg […]

This weekend I went and spent some time hacking some code at the “NBC Universal Hackathon” and trying it out new ideas, meeting new friends, and learning a ton on many technological aspects and innovating.  The particular problem that we decided to to solve was the irrelevance  aspects of current TV and how more interactive […]

Patent Issued for One of Our Media Streaming Technologies As you have read in my blog, Cloud-to-Cable is a platform and technology that merges the worlds of cloud and Cable TV. One of the main objectives of the patent and as you can read in the description is to: ” ……   systems, devices, methods, […]

   Late September and early October total of two judgments have been filed thus far by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the case against Music Choice’s patent. As indicated in the rulings for IPR2017-00888 and IPR2017-01191, partial axing fo the patents have been granted to Stingray or against Music Choice’s interest.  Interesting […]

What is Cloud to Cable TV? Use Case : Music for Cable | Amplify your Reach® First Patent is Allowed and will be granted The patent filed for an important component of the “CloudtoCableTV” architecture has received a “Notice of Allowance” meaning that a patent will be granted as soon as fees are paid by […]

Augmented Reality Anemometer – First Update During the “Emerge Americas Hackathon 2018,” the theme was “Miami Resilience” and specially with all the hurricane  events in Florida a key element in those weather reports is the classic anemometer and wind speed measurements. As we all know, anything over “Tropical Storm” and Floridians prepare for the worst […]

Predicting Network Traffic using Radial-basis Function Neural Networks – Fractal Behavior I found a paper about Predicting Network Traffic using RBFNN.  I wrote this back in December 2011 regarding Radial-basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN). Currently, new trends in artificial intelligence are key and RBF-Kernels are in use by machine learning methods and systems. ” Fractal […]

Big Data in RF Analysis Big Data provides tools and a framework to analyze data, in fact, large amounts of data. Radio Frequency, RF, provides  amounts of information that depending n how it is modeled or created, its analysis fits many statistical models and is in general  predicted using passive filtering techniques. The main tools […]

BigData Presentation – Radio Frequency / Mobile CDS Intelligent Positioning of RF Cells for 4G/5G I was invited to FAU (Florida Atlantic University) to present at one of the MBA classes on “Big Data Analytics” and we went over the important concept and examples of MapReduce, Hadoop, Pandas, and sample on how Radio Frequency can […]

Music for Cable and Music for IPTV Powered by CLOUD TO CABLE Music for Cable and Music for IPTV ara part of the sites being relaunched for lead generation for “Cloud to Cable TV” and Music as a Service offerings for operators.   Music for MVPD and Operators is available for licensing Sites Relaunched: cloudtocable.com, […]

Music Choice vs Stingray Digital – Case 2:16-cv-586-JRG-RSP  vs.  Music Choice vs Stingray is a case taking place in the E.D. of Texas.  We will discuss in the article, the judge’s order (Judge Roy Payne) and memorandum regarding all the claims terms and its construction. As expected, the judge went for: “[C]laims ‘must be read […]

American Innovation Cycle : Challenges and Phases / IPR Era An Inventor’s Perspective The new American Innovation Cycle has changed how Innovation is produced and will be created in America. It takes brains, sweat, and tears to innovate, specially technology when you count with limited resources and advanced technological innovations. Inventions do not come easy […]

Plataforma de Música y Televisiøn : MEDIAMPLIFY®: Amplify your reach A Cloud to Cable TV™ Plataforma de Música, TV, y Video Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez Fundador de EGLA CORP La Plataforma de Música y  Televisión Mediamplify® es una multiplataforma de distribución de contenido web, móvil y para sistemas de Televisión por cable. Mediamplify® permite el […]

A Cloud to Cable TV™ Platform for Music, TV, and Video Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez Chief Technology Officer – EGLA COMMUNICATIONS Mediamplify® is the one stop shop multi-platform media distribution for web, mobile, and Cable TV systems. Mediamplify® enables a cloud-based infrastructure to be connected with Cable TV head ends or Multi-System Operators (MSOs), just […]

MEVIA Updates We have done tremendous progress on MEVIA, the message, the branding and overall improved to a responsive site our corporate image. Focusing on the CLOUD TO CABLE TV message and our mobile app, MEVIA. New Web Presence We decided to build a new site to cover all technology offerings and services offered by […]

Anvato Acquisition by Google Compared with EGLA CORP An announcement was found today regarding ANVATO, one of the OTT Platforms in the market. Slideshare brings an interesting one-pager depicting what ANVATO is: An OTT Platform TV Everywhere Some Patents in encoding and transcoding Main features include: Clearly, MEDIAMPLIFY can be compared with ANVATO, indicating that […]

What’s Hadoop? What’s Hadoop? Hadoop is a framework or tools that enable the partition and split of tasks across multiple server and nodes on a network. Hadoop then provides the required framework to MAP and REDUCE a process into multiple chunks or segments. Hadoop has multiple projects that include: Hive, Hbase, Chukwa, Tex, Pig, Spark, […]

Virtualization with Docker and XenServer Virtualization with Docker and XenServer has been occurring for several years . According to google search,  Virtualization consists on: ”  Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.” In general, virtualization is nothing […]