Comments on: Blackboard, Inc. Sued for Patent Infringement http://mfeldstein.com/blackboard-inc-sued-for-patent-infringement/ What Michael Feldstein Is Learning About Online Learning...Online Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dave http://mfeldstein.com/blackboard-inc-sued-for-patent-infringement/#comment-66067 Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:00 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/blackboard-inc-sued-for-patent-infringement/#comment-66067 I skimmed the complaint (but not the patents themselves)....and I couldn't seem to find much about the specific workings of the Blackboard/NTI tool that is claimed to be infringing. Otherwise, here's my attempt at a summary: TechRadium has a product (Immediate Response Information System, or IRIS) that allows one person to send a single message that is automatically delivered to group members in multiple ways (cell phone, landline phone, pager, email). Group members can specify their preferred method of receiving a message. There are three patents that TechRadium says Blackboard (through the NTI product) is infringing: one patent that lets the one person send the message, one that applies the message to a school administrator contacting employees and parents, and one that covers the school administrator situation including the creation and delivery of the message and responses from recipients. I skimmed the complaint (but not the patents themselves)….and I couldn’t seem to find much about the specific workings of the Blackboard/NTI tool that is claimed to be infringing. Otherwise, here’s my attempt at a summary:

TechRadium has a product (Immediate Response Information System, or IRIS) that allows one person to send a single message that is automatically delivered to group members in multiple ways (cell phone, landline phone, pager, email). Group members can specify their preferred method of receiving a message.

There are three patents that TechRadium says Blackboard (through the NTI product) is infringing: one patent that lets the one person send the message, one that applies the message to a school administrator contacting employees and parents, and one that covers the school administrator situation including the creation and delivery of the message and responses from recipients.

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