Patent Research | CUSTOMER-BASED PRODUCT DESIGN MODULE
  • AOP Code: LODS 829
  • Exp: 07/25/11
  • Categories: Consumer
  • Industry: Communications Technology
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Customer-based Product Design Module


This Study relates to a component or unit of a system comprised of a memory; a transmitter; and a processor, coupled to the memory and to the transmitter. They are configured to: monitor a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events, increment a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event, cause the display of a user interface, configured to probe for information regarding a use of the product, if the counter exceeds a threshold, cause the memory to store an input received from the user interface, and cause the transmitter to transmit the input to a server.

According to the specification of the patent, one of the purposes of this unit is to collect information and provide feedback to vendors to assist in the design of new features or usability of the product. For example, one of the preferred embodiments is “a specialized computer module.”

Patent Number: US 7,620,565 

Latest Date for Prior Art: August 05, 1992  

Filing Date of Patent: August 25, 2006

Owner(s): Lodsys LLC

Description:

This Study is a request for prior art, including non-patent literature, that provides a path to invalidity for the Study patent claims that is not already known. The Reward is guaranteed to be paid to the Researcher who submits the highest quality prior art. 

There is a preferred Latest Date for Prior Art of August 5, 1991.

New matter entered in USSN 243638 is only entitled to Latest Date for Prior Art of May 15, 1994 with a preferred date of May 15, 1993.

This Study is subject to the Shared Reward program.

 

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Please see the claims in the downloadable copies of the patent.

Please submit prior art references that disclose the elements of the claims and describe their use in the systems, apparatuses and/or methods set forth in the claims.

All references need to have either been filed or published on or before this date. Any references filed or published after the LDPA will be automatically declined.

Specific claims or technical disclosures on which the scope of the Study is based. Your submissions should be based on these requirements.