Exemplary Validity Analysis Sunset Licensing

Patent-in-suit
US 8,483,941
 ontent
About the Litigation The Patented Technology - US’941

The present patent in suit relates to a vehicle speed monitor for monitoring the speed
The Plaintiff
of a moving vehicle. The vehicle speed monitor records instantaneous accelerations
Plaintiff Sunset Licensing LLCis a
of the vehicle along three axes over time. The vehicle speed monitor may be
company established in Texas with its
implemented as a contact or contactless integrated circuit (IC) card. The vehicle
principal place of business at 6009 W
speed monitor is returned at an exit from the road, and scalar instantaneous speeds
Parker Rd, Ste 149 - 1081, Plano, TX
of the vehicle are determined from the recorded instantaneous accelerations in the
75093.
vehicle speed monitor. The scalar instantaneous speeds are compared to one or

more speed limits between the entrance and the exit to determine any speed limit

violation.
PATENT-IN-SUIT
As part of our regular due-diligence and exemplary studies, we took this sample case

and have performed a brief validity search, and were hoping of sharing the
US 8,483,941 B2
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US 8,483,941 - Asserted Patent US20030163287A1- Potential Prior Art Reference

Claim 1. A vehicle speed monitor for [Para 244] A MMD configured to measure airtime preferably uses an accelerometer as the
monitoring speed of a moving vehicle, detector; and FIG. 11 depicts electrical and process steps 250 for processing acceleration
the vehicle speed monitor comprising: signals to determine an “airtime” event. FIG. 12 illustrates state machine logic 280 used in
reporting this airtime. By way of example, FIG. 12 shows that motion is preferably determined
prior to determining airtime, as airtime is meaningful in certain applications (e.g.,
wakeboarding) when the vehicle (e.g., the wakeboard) is moving and non-stationary.

an integrated circuit (IC) card, the IC [Para 11] An MMD of this aspect can for example exist in the form of a credit card, wherein the
card comprising: communications port is either a contact transponder or a contactless transponder. The MMD
of one aspect includes a magnetic element that facilitates easily attaching the MMD to metal
objects.

an accelerometer being configured to [Para 37] In accord with one aspect, a MMD monitors one or more movement metrics for
measure instantaneous accelerations “events,” where data is acquired that exceeds some predetermined threshold or value. By
of the vehicle along three axes; way of example, in one aspect the detector is a triaxial accelerometer and the processor
coupled to the accelerometer seeks to determine impact events that exceed a threshold, in
any or all of three axes.

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a nonvolatile memory; [Para 17] In one aspect, thereby, the MMD include internal memory; and the MMD stores
one or more “event” data, preferably with time-tag information, in the memory. When the
memory is nearly full, the MMD transmits the stored data wirelessly to a RR. Alternatively,
stored data is transmitted to an IR when interrogated.

a contact or contactless interface; and [Para 11] An MMD of this aspect can for example exist in the form of a credit card, wherein
the communications port is either a contact transponder or a contactless transponder. The
MMD of one aspect includes a magnetic element that facilitates easily attaching the MMD
to metal objects.

a processor being programmed to Claim 56. A device of claim 53, wherein the processor processes acceleration signals from
record the instantaneous accelerations the accelerometer to detect speed.
measured by the accelerometer over
[Para 285] Data events from arms 428 may be recorded in memory 424 a or 430 a. If for
time in the nonvolatile memory and to
example communications module 430 is a transponder or RFID tag, with internal FLASH
transmit, via the contact or contactless
memory 430 a, then data is preferably stored in memory 430 a when accelerometer sensor
interface, at least one of (1) the
420 wakes up; data is then off-loaded to a receiver interrogating transponder from memory
recorded instantaneous accelerations
430 a. Alternatively, processor 424 has memory 424 a and event data is stored there.
and (2) scalar instantaneous speeds over
Module 430 might also be an RF transmitter that wirelessly transmits data off-board at
time determined from the recorded
predetermined intervals.
instantaneous accelerations.

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