No need for money. Here's his patent:
www.google.com/pat
ents/US7352953
Patent number: 7352953
Filing date: Feb 12, 2002
Issue date:
Apr 1, 2008
It's for an internet video streaming and recording device.
the
diagram is a hard drive connected to the internet on one side,
and a TV
on the other. Interestingly, no assignee is listed, so
the patent belongs to
the foreman alone.
Looking around a bit, I found this patent which
appears to
cover
the same concept, and was provisionally filed, applied for,
and
granted earlier than '953:
www.google.com/pat
ents/US7130616
Patent number: 7130616
Filing date: Aug 7, 2001
Issue date: Oct
31, 2006
On the face of it, every internet streaming device would seem
to
infringe the foreman's patent, and he should be suing everyone in
the book
for devices such as the the Roku, Apple TV, all the way
to Google's Nexus Q.
So it should be worth billions...
or
it
is garbage and he knows
it, so he is laying low, since prior
art
would take away his prized
possession if he tried to assert it.
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