There are a lot of sad sites at CES. But Robert Sanchez telling an empty room about his plans to sell a patent that details delivery of URLs via text message for $US60 million has to be one of the most desperate.
Technology Review reports that Sanchez, an entrepreneur and CEO of GlabalTel Media explained that “someone’s infringing on us probably three to four million times a day”. He was speaking to an audience of less than 20 in a room at the Venetian Hotel and Casino. At least five of those people were colleagues of Sanchez.
Poor Robbie.
He is, apparently, planning to convince Facebook, Twitter, Google or some other big internet player to buy US patent 8,073,895, titled “System and method for delivering web content to a mobile device”. That seems optimistic. His named price of $US60 million seems even more optimistic.
According to Technology Review, during the press conference, Sanchez muttered “I’ve never done this before, it’s an experiment.” Damn right it’s an experiment, Robbie. [Technology Review]
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Ollie
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 7:26 AM“This document discloses a system and method to enable any website to have a feature that allows a user to click on a picture or other content item and send it to any cell phone or other type of mobile device. Furthermore, the website sending the content can have its own sender identifier (ID) which allows the content owner website to get credit for sending the content. ”
No, this doesn’t affect the masses, this affects retards who download things like that crazy frog ringtone.
wsDK_II
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8:39 AMhey, if he owns the patent then he needs to be compensated.
apple are allowed to use the patents this way so i dont see why no one else can.
light487
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 10:23 AM+1
If the patent was indeed granted.. then there’s nothing really to discuss. It’s owned by that company, end of discussion.
Sean
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 9:14 AMI had a look at the patent.
” the system allows a user to “click” on a selected content item in the webpage with a pointer or other mechanism, view a pop-up winder, and enter a cell phone number or other identifier, and click “send.” The selected content item is sent automatically to the mobile device associated with the cell phone number.”
I don’t think so.