Patent portfolios that are pending and/or issued include work relating to the following areas:

• 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 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."
  Update: The most recent patent issued 1/26/10 and relates to disc/online hybrids that link CDs or DVDs with online services, such as with the Blu-ray BD-Live feature.  Delivering such services was Teleshuttle's original business, as exemplified by the 1995 Blockbuster Video Guide CD-ROM, with its Teleshuttle online update feature.
   

• Coactive TV (pending) – a power assist for simultaneous ("coactive") TV + Web use, which is in early commercial development by Teleshuttle, with strategic partners being sought.  Extensive information on CoTV is provided on this Web site.
   

• Search and the Social 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 four patents issued in 2005-2008, with others pending). Sold 7/6/09 to RPX Corporation, the first defensive patent aggregator. As of 6/1/10, all of these patents sold to RPX have been licensed to over 49 companies, including many household names.
   

• Product usage data and ratings:  network-based collection and exchange (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.  The first patent in this portfolio issued in 2008.
   

• Digital media storage management (allowed+pending) – with some objectives relating to trade-offs of quality versus space that may change after items are first stored, such as to squeeze additional content into a "full" storage device by increasing compression (such as in a video camera or a DVR).
   

• 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.

Inquiries from potential strategic partners are invited

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

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

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

7/29/08   - First Reisman patent relating to collection of product usage data issues

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

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

10/11/05 - US Patent Office issues first patent in Richard Reisman's search-related patent portfolio

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, commerce, and entertainment. 

This includes various combinations of man-machine symbiosis and machine-augmented human communications -- as well as the new 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.