Royalty Report: Telecommunications Equip, Software, Internet – Collection: 5367

License Grant

Licensor hereby conveys to the Company, (I) a non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicensable (except for patents), worldwide license to fully exploit the inventions and any intellectual property rights (whether or not patented) and confidential information and know-how related thereto (specifically no right to sublicense any patent is granted, unless the patent is sublicensed in support of licenses with respect to products or code of the Company where the licensees may have the right with respect to such code or products to use, create, market and/or otherwise exploit such code, products and derivative works thereof or where said sublicense is needed in connection with said license in order to utilize said code, products or derivative works) and (ii) all right, title and interest anywhere in the world to the Software and other Licensee Project Output and any non-patent intellectual property rights and confidential information and know-how related thereto ((I) and (ii) shall collectively comprise the 'Rights').  By this agreement, the Licensor becomes a 10% preferred stockholder.

License Property

Technologies refer to web conferencing technology which enables companies to hold and participate in web conferences with others, despite the existence of firewalls that broadly block the transmission of certain content across organizational boundaries.

Inventions
1. I-IP/950289 Low-Bandwidth Network Window System. Mike Dixon, Pavel Curtis, David Nichols, John Lamping.
2. F-IP/950990 Jupiter Audio/Video Architecture Secure Multimedia in Network Places. Pavel Curtis, Mike Dixon, Ron Frederick David Nichols.
3. A-IP/951514 Automated Access to Expertise. Richard Bruce, David Nichols, Danny Bobrow, David Goldberg.
4. F-IP/921756, Software Video Compression for Teleconferencing, Ron Frederick.

Software
1) Java, C, and C++ 'placeware' source code, providing shared Java applications over a network in a web browser, with audio communications between participants. This includes, without limitation, the code developed by _________, _________, ___________, __________, and ____________ during calendar year 1996 and third parties working with those developers.

2) C++ source code to implement video send/receive capability for the Microsoft Windows version of the Jupiter client. This includes, without limitation, code developed during 1995.

3) Developer's Guide, Administrator's Guide and API Reference Documentation relating to the above.

Field of Use

Licensee web conferencing technology enables a wide variety of business collaboration applications. It is designed to deliver scalable, reliable, real-time interactivity with minimal latency over the Internet. Licensee technology is designed to accommodate the transmission of data and voice over the Internet at connection speeds as low as 28.8Kbps and to support user access through corporate firewalls and web proxy servers. Licensee technology efforts focus on developing the key proprietary components of the underlying communication and collaboration infrastructure. In addition, we utilize existing products and services and industry standards when appropriate to enhance our services.

Licensee is a leading provider of services and products that enable businesses to conduct real-time, interactive meetings and presentations, or web conferences, over the Internet.

License Grant

The Licensor hereby grants to British Licensee, a license to use, sell and sublicense the Technology within the Territory as is or as a derivative work embedded in the Licensee's products.

License Property

Licensor has a comprehensive video platform for real-time integration, delivery and archiving of live and streaming interactive media.  Licensor solution is perfect for broadband service providers seeking a ubiquitous platform for multiple services, and service companies seeking the fastest, most robust platform for live video services.

Technology shall mean the eViewMediaEngine which is owned by Licensor and protected by USA Patent numbers 7,003,168, 6,711,299 and 6,904,175.

Video Archive
The technology provides APIs to control the processes of uploading the ME format media into an archive that supports media distribution and rendering. The underlying engine components reside in both the execution time client and server(s). The archive structure supports maintaining more than one copy of an object for both redundancy and for load sharing considerations. Each archive object in the ME format has, as a minimum

• Video index file(s)

• Video data file(s)

• Audio index file(s)

• Audio data file(s)

Within the scope of this agreement, it is understood that the ME format will be extended to include

• Script index file(s)

• Script data file(s)

The archive will also be extended to support the Asier encryption model.

Video Distribution
The technology provides APIs to control access to objects in the video archive, supporting object rendering in a web distribution model. There is an underlying Java based player that supports rendering multiple videos simultaneously on an HTML web page with programmable coordination among the videos. The player and its supporting Javascript environment have all of the elements required to

• Access the index and data files from an archive

• Buffer the video object such that the video starts to play quickly (typically within 3 seconds), but can sustain interruptions in the flow of data from the server.

• Manage the overall processor and bandwidth constraints. The player supports bandwidth coordination among the videos that are playing simultaneously. Each video can be designated as “primary” or “secondary”. When initial buffering occurs, primaries are able to get to the initial fast start state (3 seconds worth of render time) before a secondary may start. At any time while playing/buffering, the secondary(s) will back off if a primary is about to stall for lack of data. Any video may have its buffering bandwidth effect controlled to a percentage of its computed average bandwidth requirement (i.e., a video may be loaded at 110% of its average bit rate rather than loading as fast as it can – ME supports both paradigms).

• Start a video on any designated frame. The player supports an API that includes a request to play from frame(x) to frame(y) and/or start playing to end at frame(x). This is used to effect slider drag operations that allow the subscriber to advance or backup to any position within a movie with no dependence on prior buffering.

• Render the video from an internal memory cache. The video is buffered from a stream and is not stored on the local disk. Thus, a two hour movie is never completely contained within the client machine.

• Support a coordinated actor/director rendering paradigm. Each video rendered on the web page is represented by a Java actor. The page also contains, in this paradigm, a Java director that controls everything visualized by the actor(s) on the page. The director contains a context for each video being managed by it. At any instant in time, an actor is associated (receiving rendering data) with one context within the director. The director may have more contexts than actors in order to buffer video data before it is needed. The contexts may be programmed to trigger events when they get to certain states (i.e., when playing a particular frame, when there is enough data buffered to safely play, when the user clicks on an actor associated with the context, etc.). Each context also supports a complete API control mechanism. The combination of the event architecture and the API allows the context events to trigger control actions in other contexts. This supports a high degree of coordination between videos on the page. As a video plays to certain frames (arrives at certain scenes), another video (or image) on the page may be triggered to take an action.

• Automatically recover from server disconnects. When connected to a web server to pull the video data, the player will encounter frequent disconnects during the course of a two hour period. The technology supports automatically detecting that this has occurred and to reconnect before the object buffer is drained.

• Automatically select from multiple object formats. Any ME archive object may be represented in more than one format (resolution, frame rate, etc.). The player environment is capable of analyzing the processor speed and available bandwidth and selecting an appropriate format. The player may also be directed to select or change formats while playing and not be required to start over.

• Restrict access to the video. The Java player is restricted to operation within a specific web domain. If a different web page tries to activate a player not authorized for it, the player will fail to run. It is understood that under this agreement, this security model will be extended to support the Asier encryption model.

• Support complex ME formats. The complex ME object format is structurally the same, but supports dynamic frame rate and resolution settings. The video may use a different frame rate for each included scene.

Video Chat
The technology provides a comprehensive solution for live video chat. The chat architecture includes a client API that supports

• Connecting the client to a VXN server. This operation results in an internal endpoint or IP address that is used to route data from one chat client to another.

• Enabling local camera capture. The video from the camera is automatically made available to the internal chat architecture for both local display and transmission to the server for use in the chat conference.

• Making a call. The API allows the local client to make a call through the VXN connection to anyone connected to the VXN by referencing the destination’s endpoint address. After the appropriate handshake, this will cause the local client’s audio and video to be transmitted to the destination.

• Making multiparty calls. The technology supports up to an 8 party call, depending on available bandwidth.

• Controlling call parameters. The API supports controlling parameters that affect the destination’s user experience and the bandwidth usage for both parties. These include resolution, frame rate, and quality settings. Most parameters can be changed mid-call.

• Making audio only calls.

• Interoperation with H.323 devices.

The technology consists of a combination of source and object (executable) code and associated documentation

• ME encoder Windows dynamic link library executables

• ME encoder controller Java applet executable

• ME player Java applet executable

• ME upload applet executable

• ME installer applet executable

• ME chat installer executable

• ME chat engine Java applet executable
                â€¢ ME chat engine Windows dynamic link library executables

• ME media service controller JavaScript source code

• ME media engine hosting service PHP executable (obfuscated source code)

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to the platform for live video services.

License Grant

The Licensor of British Virgin Islands entered into a Licensed Works Agreement, Licensed Works Agreement Statement of Work and a Patent License Agreement with the Mexican Licensee, under which the Licensor agreed to integrate our bandwidth management technology and related intellectual property into future Lotus Unified Communications offerings by the Licensee, and to provide maintenance support services.

The Agreements have a five year term and are non-cancelable except for material default by either party.  The Agreements also convey to the Licensee a non-exclusive world-wide License to our patent portfolio existing at the time of the Agreements and for all subsequent patents issued with an effective filing date of up to five years from the date of the Agreements.

License Property

The Licensor's broad portfolio of patents covers, among other areas, video and rich media collaboration technologies, networked real-time text and non-text Communications and desktop workstation echo cancellation.

In general, patents relate to networked real-time conferencing related technology.  Patent numbers include  7,398,296; 7,206,809; 7,185,054; 7,152,093; 7,054,904; 6,972,786; 6,959,322; 6,816,904; 6,789,105; 6,594,688; 6,583,806; 6,437,818; 6,426,769; 6,351,762; 6,343,314; 6,237,025; 6,212,547; 6,081,291; 5,978,835; 5,915,091; 5,896,500; 5,884,039; 5,867,654; 5,854,893; 5,802,294; 5,758,079; 5,751,338; 5,689,641; 5,617,539.

“Node” means a single computing device, such as a hardware server.

“Session Initiation Protocol” (“SIP”) means a signalling protocol, widely used for setting up and tearing down multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over the Internet.

“Multipoint Control Unit” (“MCU”) means an endpoint on the local area network that provides the capability for three (3) or more terminals and gateways to participate in a multipoint conference.

“Virtual Private Network” (“VPN”) means a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in some larger network (e.g., the Internet) instead of by physical wires.

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to multimedia telecommunications.

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee, the irrevocable, exclusive worldwide license to manufacture, develop, distribute, market, sell, license, sublicense, rent, and otherwise exploit the Technology and any derivative products in any media now known or hereinafter discovered.

License Property

The Licensor is the developer and owner of a certain technology entitled “Tiny Webserver” including its source code, documentation of the source code, object code, manuals, and other items, and all copyrights, patents, and all other legal rights in all such items.

The Technology is the software application known as “Tiny Web Server” including any derivative works. This Technology is written in C, approximately 3600 lines of source code, and its source code is named “websrv.c”.  It is a fully functional web server software that occupies very little memory. Its executable code is approximately 100K bytes, which makes it a good fit in a mobile internet device.

Field of Use

The Licensee is a provider of Internet core technologies, administrative software, and derivative software application products through its distribution network.

License Grant

Licensee desires to collaborate with Licensor to design and develop products that enable voice and other multimedia services over internet protocol networks.

The associated license agreement provides the right for Licensee and its Affiliates to use the Deliverables owned or controlled by Licensor.  Products will be exclusively commercialized, sold or otherwise disposed, directly or indirectly by Licensee and/or its Affiliates in the Exclusive Market.  The MTA-1 Project Exclusive Market shall mean the market relative to voice over IP applications for consumer terminals over hybrid fiber coax cable television networks.

License Property

Licensor has expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of products and technologies related to internet protocol telephony.

Field of Use

Licensee is a global independent semiconductor company which designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range integrated circuits and discrete devices based on semiconductors used in a wide variety of microelectronic applications, including telecommunication systems, computer systems, consumer products, automotive products and industrial automation and control systems.