UAV systems infringing in US 6370629
Folks - meet "Controlling Access to Stored Information" - US 6,370,629, and a snapshot of my brain in 1999 when I filed it originally. It is the culmination in a process which produces non-repudiated controls as digital evidence of some motion-object's actions in a real-virtual or ephemeral context.
Here is the patent storm link or use PEAR at the PTO for a copy...
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6370629.html
We are now enforcing this against a number of cellphone, surveillance, weapons and UAV vendors and you should be hearing about this patent in the next few months allot. Dont worry the Brits were furious to review and find it covers the use and operations of BSFM (Ballistic Sensor Fused Munitions) which means their AF90 155mm GPS guided appliances infringe too.
Anyway - I know its probably unnerving to hear about this here but hey it is what it is - and we are licensing our rights to use this IP to others.
Contact me offlist for our lawyers' contact information if you are interested in this IP
Todd Glassey
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Glassey came up with the BRILLIANT idea that you could use the GPS POSITION as part of an ENCRYPTION KEY to access a DATABASE thereby only allowing access to data for its current POSITION. WOW I bet nobody else could have thought of that. I wish him the best of luck selling this valuable IP. :-)
How this claim can be applied in any general way to UAV operations is beyond me.
But in
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/gps/showArticle.j...
he claims
"Todd Glassey, chief scientist of Certichron, a time data trust service, and founder of the U.S. Time Server Foundation, argues that GPS devices can be easily jammed and that their data can be spoofed, particularly when tied to cellular systems -- as offender tracking bracelets may be."
Futher on....
"But constitutional considerations aside, Glassey maintains that L1 GPS data should not be admissible in court without some other form of corroborating evidence. He contends that the reliability claims made to the court by manufacturers of GPS tracking devices are misrepresentations."
So using L1 GPS by his own admission can be repudiated ,so his patent cannot apply to using it.
Don't get me started on "Don't worry the Brits..."