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If any VC's out there are interested in (a) packaging multi-vendor packages of software services; (b) selling them to interested companies/organizations like th

by nwatson 15y ago

If any VC's out there are interested in (a) packaging multi-vendor packages of software services; (b) selling them to interested companies/organizations like the CIA; (c) helping those customers keep track of their departmental consumption for payment; (d) making sure those payments get to the integrators/original-software-vendors; (e) perhaps even letting "customers" also be "distributors" (infinite hierarchies of resale); (f) >>> paying Hitachi Data Systems licensing fees on patents <<<; (g) >>> having me be the CTO <<< ... then I have the complete I.P. understanding and good tech expertise to put together this solution. There are some technical challenges but these are surmountable. Here are patents applied for in 2001 that now have been granted related to all aspects of software licensing, distribution, hierarchical apportioning of proceeds, etc. (see Google links after patents list). Note that I did primary patent disclosures to the I.P. lawyer who filed the patents on behalf of the small company later acquired by Hitachi. Anyone doing work in this area is going to step on the claims of these patents. Patents (dang, I just realized these are still in "patent application phase" form but they've been referenced by the likes of Oracle, Microsoft, AT&T, BMC, etc. -- Google's patent search didn't used to return patent applications, I don't think, ... anyway ...): * US 2003/0084000 A1 * US 2003/0084060 A1 * US 2003/0084145 A1 * US 2003/0083994 A1 * US 2003/0084341 A1 * US 2003/0083892 A1 * US 2003/0083999 A1 * US 2003/0083998 A1 * US 2003/0083995 A1 * US 2003/0084343 A1 Ugly links: http://www.google.com/patents?id=7ZnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=7ZnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=uZvvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=uZvvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=Op3vAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=Op3vAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=55nvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=55nvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=uqDvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=uqDvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=jZfvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=jZfvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=7JnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=7JnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=65nvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=65nvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=6JnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=6JnvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&... http://www.google.com/patents?id=vKDvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Nathan+Watson%22+ram http://www.google.com/patents?id=vKDvAAAAEBAJ&hl=en&...

nwatson 15y ago
For a further clarification of a "multi-vendor" scenario, here's a hypothetical situation: - an integrator knows the CIA, FBI, and successor to the KGB all need secure software services - the integrator convinces two secure data centers, one in Reston, VA, and the other in Moscow, to host equivalent infrastructures - the integrator puts together a suite of services consisting of: Oracle DB (backend store for some services); Microsoft SQL Server (backend store for others); AT&T network connectivity to/from Reston data center; Russian network connectivity to/from Moscow data center; SharePoint document repository; Microsoft Office suite of tools; document-management vendor software managing search, archival, secure role-based access to documents, automatic purging of documents after a given time where applicable; EMC networked storage; image-processing tools with plugin architecture; automated image-processing software from several small specialized shops to recognize military equipment, buildings, insurgent hideouts, etc.; bla bla bla bla - the integrator puts in measuring tools everywhere to gather usage data: data transmission; storage used; DB activity; #-of-important-items-recognized-during-image-processing-runs; #-of-users-in-system-X; #-of-document-views; etc. - the integrator applies billing policies for the entire stack, perhaps on a different basis per customer (e.g., CIA/FBI get large-volume discount price list; Syria's secret service gets small-fry high-cost pricing) - large organizations will likely have (a) a central consulting group acting as a distributor to other departments (along with payments to integrator and income from other departments); (b) other departments that will buy from central consulting organization - at the end of every month, each department/organization/consultant/integrator either: (a) gets income from their customers and downstream distributors; (b) pays someone upstream for their usage; or (c) both pays and gets some income - in this case, the integrator (a) pays out to Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, data centers, etc., all on a per-use basis (of course, a flat monthly fee for any particular item is also "per-use" of a month); (b) receives incomes from its direct customers - given adequate security the actors in this scheme need not ever know directly who their upstream or downstream is beyond a single level

by nwatson 15y ago

nwatson 15y ago

For a further clarification of a "multi-vendor" scenario, here's a hypothetical situation: - an integrator knows the CIA, FBI, and successor to the KGB all need secure software services - the integrator convinces two secure data centers, one in Reston, VA, and the other in Moscow, to host equivalent infrastructures - the integrator puts together a suite of services consisting of: Oracle DB (backend store for some services); Microsoft SQL Server (backend store for others); AT&T network connectivity to/from Reston data center; Russian network connectivity to/from Moscow data center; SharePoint document repository; Microsoft Office suite of tools; document-management vendor software managing search, archival, secure role-based access to documents, automatic purging of documents after a given time where applicable; EMC networked storage; image-processing tools with plugin architecture; automated image-processing software from several small specialized shops to recognize military equipment, buildings, insurgent hideouts, etc.; bla bla bla bla - the integrator puts in measuring tools everywhere to gather usage data: data transmission; storage used; DB activity; #-of-important-items-recognized-during-image-processing-runs; #-of-users-in-system-X; #-of-document-views; etc. - the integrator applies billing policies for the entire stack, perhaps on a different basis per customer (e.g., CIA/FBI get large-volume discount price list; Syria's secret service gets small-fry high-cost pricing) - large organizations will likely have (a) a central consulting group acting as a distributor to other departments (along with payments to integrator and income from other departments); (b) other departments that will buy from central consulting organization - at the end of every month, each department/organization/consultant/integrator either: (a) gets income from their customers and downstream distributors; (b) pays someone upstream for their usage; or (c) both pays and gets some income - in this case, the integrator (a) pays out to Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, data centers, etc., all on a per-use basis (of course, a flat monthly fee for any particular item is also "per-use" of a month); (b) receives incomes from its direct customers - given adequate security the actors in this scheme need not ever know directly who their upstream or downstream is beyond a single level