Acquired Portfolios

Portfolio status is current as of September 27, 2011. For current availability, please contact us.

  Name Status Summary
Black Maple, LLC Sold Computer systems which monitor or scan for system configurations and automatically initiate software updates.
Meerkat Technology LLC Sold Method is practiced by web applications/sites. Method for creating an interactive web page that holds multiple objects;the objects have associated behaviors that are triggered when events occur; a behavior causes an action to occur when an event triggers. Eg.,clicking a star on a webpage to indicate importance and the star turns red.
Ringsoft, LLC Sold Bundling and moving files between storage formats
Shiftlink, LLC Sold International telephone routing information, status, and availability network
River Road Technologies, LLC Sold Technologies related to mobile messaging and geolocation
TurnBridge Wells, LLC Sold The portfolio contains 4 US Patents related to location based mobile messaging. The system described in the patents allows a user to post messages for other persons at specific coordinate way points and to retrieve the messages when they enter or are near the coordinate way point. This pioneering portfolio, consisting of over 100 US claims, represents innovations believed by many to be fundamental to the future of mobile social networking.
Haystack Alley, LLC Sold The portfolio relates to a range of technologies such as integrated circuits, logic circuits, Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits, thin film transistors, clocking, memory, semiconductor design and processing, system bus architecture, and power management.
Overland Enterprises LLC Sold The portfolio contains 1 US Patent which relates to a dynamic, self-modifying graphical user interface for use with relational or object-oriented database management systems. Users are able to search and edit the contents of a relational database as well as modify the structure of the relational database tables. Users are also able to import and export batches of data, and the interface of the system provides schematic representations of the physical locations of the relational database contents.
Twister Investments, LLC Sold A distributed network cache system
Full Spectrum Technologies, LLC Sold
Red Acre, LLC Sold Advertising markup language
Crescent Moon, LLC Sold Numerous computer technologies including enclosure, graphics and display
Misc. microprocessor memory technologies including cache management, memory controller, memory architecture, DMA etc.
Misc. computer input technologies including keyboard, graphics tablet, mouse and GUI
Assorted direction speaker, video conferencing, and broadband television systems and methods
Assorted network related devices and methods
Audio, Video and image processing, enhancement and communications technologies
Audio, Video and image coding and decoding technologies
Methods and devices for increasing power efficiency in electronic circuitry
Various electronic circuits
Seven Circle, LLC Sold These patents cover Open Source Software, including but not limited to, operating systems, desktop applications and browsers.  
Bollinger Lane, LLC Sold System and method for automatically detecting neutral expressionless faces in digital images
Peripheral Vision, LLC Sold Automated capture of technical documents for electronic review and distribution
Stature Ventures, LLC Currently for sale on open market through Patent Profit International, LLC, will@patprofit.com, available to new AST members for license Method and apparatus for initiating telephone calls using a data network
Lady Kensington, LLC Sold Technology for providing call muting on a conference call when noise exceeds a certain level
Hawthorne Heights, LLC Sold Patents relating to GPS-enabled mobile phones configured to provide location based services such as wireless E-911
Rooster Row, LLC Sold High-performance, server blade and computer cluster related technologies including:distributive processing, network attached storage, distributed resource management, data fail over and long-range USB
Tudor Empire, LLC Sold Technology for storing and referencing an application user's preferences, possibly including the use of browser cookies
Liberty Lane, LLC Sold Parallel processing Java VM
Abraham Lane, LLC Sold Method and apparatus for managing power usage in a portable device
Red Fern Valley, LLC Sold Electronic apparatus comprising a display screen, and method of displaying graphics
Sage Technology, LLC Sold This lot relates to voice mail and telephone exchange systems, specifically disclosing a switching system that interconnects a number of telephone switching systems to a single voice mail system.
Pleasant View, LLC Currently for sale on open market through GTT Group, agodsey@gttgrp.com, available to new AST members for license Techniques for embedding additional data (e.g. text, audio, video, etc.) into digital media files or streams. Technology can be used in television, radio, mobile applications. Includes Trademark: US 75/920,259 01/01/2002 2524206 Digital Gold Trademark
Jenny Hill, LLC Currently for sale on open market through Iceberg Innovation, jgreen@iceberg-cap.com, available to new AST members for license Automatically temporarily enabling a displayed menu option
Trey Run, LLC Sold The technology is generally related to communication and more specifically to routing of communication through multiple carriers in a telecommunication network. Further, the calls may be routed by a controller based on the lowest cost carrier selection. The technology may be implemented in telecommunication service provider equipments, such as a switch.
Tuttle Lane, LLC Sold The inventions are generally related to data communication and more particularly to techniques for routing of data in a network. The patented disclose virtual routers, techniques for routing traffic by using virtual routers, fault-tolerant routing in virtual router systems, routing a packet for processing by an engine etc. The inventions may be useful for providers on network services and may be implemented in network management systems, or servers, etc. The portfolio also includes related foreign counterparts.
Blue Legend, LLC Available to AST members for license Streaming media