ELMSFORD, NY (June 7, 2005) - U.S. Patent No. 6,903,681 , entitled "Global Synchronization Unit (GSU) For Time and Space (TS) Stamping of Input Data Elements" issued on June 7, 2005. congratulations Dr. Sadeg M. Faris, Gregory Hamlin and James P. Flannery. This patent adds to Reveo's World In Sync™ patent portfolio.
Over the past several years, a number of WWW-enabled applications have been developed, wherein human beings engage in either a cooperative or competitive activity that is constrained or otherwise conditioned on the variable time. Recent examples of on-line or Web-enabled forms of time-constrained competition include: on-line or Internet-enabled purchase or sale of stock, commodities or currency by customers located at geographically different locations, under time-varying market conditions; on-line or Internet-enabled auctioning of property involving competitive price bidding among numerous bidders located at geographically different locations; and on-line or Internet-enabled competitions among multiple competitors who are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle or problem under the time constraints of a clock, for a prize and/or an award. In each of these Internet-supported applications or processes, as well as many others, there currently exists an inherent unfairness among the competitors due to at least six important factors, namely: (1) the variable latency of (or delay in) data packet transmission over the Internet, dependent on the type of connection each client subsystem has to the Internet infrastructure; (2) the variable latency of data packet transmission over the Internet, dependent on the volume of congestion encountered by the data packets transmitted from a particular client machine: (3) the vulnerability of these applications to security breaches, tampering, and other forms of manipulation by computer and network hackers; (4) the latency of information display device used in client subsystems connected to the Internet; (5) the latency of information input device used in client subsystems connected to the Internet; and (6) the latency of the central processing unit (CPU) used in the client machine. Reveo has proposed a system known as World in Sync™. Reveo's patents and patent pending technologies in this field cover systems, devices and methods for secure synchronization of computers connected to the Internet or other network and compensates for variable Internet latency and the other inherent latencies. This technology has the potential to provide unprecedented microsecond accuracy and has applications for Internet securities trading, auctions, contests, advertising, and for tracking objects moving along the space-time continuum. In particular U.S. Patent No. 6,903,681 is directed to a Global Synchronization Unit (GSU) for time and space (TS) stamping of input data elements, including but not limited to a computer mouse, keyboard, microphone, video camera, scanner, barcode reader, pressure tablet, a voice recognition system, biometric sensor, biophysiological sensor, an analog or digital data input device, water level sensors, burglar alarms, police radar devices, still image cameras, chemical sensors, bar-code readers, document scanners, fingerprint readers, iris-scanners, vehicle counters, or optical sensors for race finish lines. The GSU incorporates a GPS Receiver and an associated antenna for receiving GPS signals a GPS system and produces time and space (TS) stamp data elements representative of the time and space coordinates of the GSU at each data sampling instant occurring within the GSU. The time stamp data is an absolute time reference. A central processor is operably connected to the GPS Receiver. A data input port is connected to a data input device and the central processor and receives one or more input data elements from the data input device at each said data sampling instant. The central processor (i) connects the input data element received at the data input port at each data sampling instant, with the TS-stamp data element generated at the sampling instant so as to produce a TS stamped input data element, and (ii) stores each TS-stamped input data element in memory.
This is a significant patent in this portfolio. Anyone interested in licensing this patent should contact Ralph.Crispino@Reveo.com.