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Key Wireless Ad-Hoc Mesh Network Technology to Be Sold at Ocean Tomo April Live Auction

Posted on: Thursday, 22 March 2007, 12:00 CDT

The sale of U.S. Patent 7,082,111 and EPO Patent 1,290,529, relating to Mobile Ad-hoc Mesh Networking, was announced today. The patents will be offered as Lot 31 by Konstantinos (Gus) Amouris at The Ocean Tomo Spring 2007 Live Intellectual Property Auction on April 19th at the Union League Club of Chicago.

Technology Summary

STDMA is a location-based time slot resource allocation scheme that creates a virtual cellular TDMA system with spatial reuse for mobile ad-hoc mesh networks. STDMA produces a collision-free TDMA broadcast packet transmission system for mobile ad-hoc mesh networks that is independent of network size, is independent of node link connectivity, and scales linearly with respect to node density, making it extremely robust and bandwidth-efficient.

Technology Applications

With the wide, ever-increasing availability of GPS, navigation technology and digital maps, GPS's ability to provide both accurate geo-location and timing information, STDMA provides the means to fill every street, road, and highway with virtual TDMA cells that can facilitate (via time slot sharing and spatial reuse) scalable, error-free, and bandwidth-efficient Inter-Vehicle Communications (IVC), for the purpose of transmitting anything from collision avoidance warnings and traffic alerts, to location-based e-commerce messages.

The same concept can also be applied to the sky and the Airborne Internet, which was featured as one of 10 emerging technologies in MIT's 2005 Technology Review. An Internet in the sky could let planes fly safely without ground controllers.

Furthermore, STDMA can be readily applied to the communication networks used by the Military, since Location Awareness is a key requirement for both current and future military communication networks.

Unique Acquisition Opportunity

With patent coverage in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Italy, and a patent term expiring in August 2023 for the US and May 2021 for Europe, acquisition of Lot 31 represents a unique opportunity for Telecommunications Companies who wish to uniquely position themselves in the emerging area of Mobile Ad-hoc Mesh Networks, Intelligent Transportation System Providers, Air-Traffic Management Providers, and Military and Defense Contractors.

Andrew T. Ramer, President of Ocean Tomo Auctions, said, "With over $30M in transactions last year, we are confident we will continue to facilitate transactions between sellers and buyers. The IP assets offered in the upcoming Spring Auction passed an even more restrictive screening process and reflect buyer interest gleaned from past events."

More Information and Related Materials

More information on Lot 31 can be accessed online at http://69.59.189.170/auction_catalogue/images/pages/Telecommunications _Lot_31.pdf and, for registered bidders, further due diligence and research on the technology applications can be conducted in the online data room. (Due to length, the above URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

For more information on the event and to register to attend or bid, please call 312.377.4851 or visit www.OceanTomoAuctions.com.

About Ocean Tomo Auctions:

Ocean Tomo Auctions, the auctions arm of Ocean Tomo, LLC (www.OceanTomo.com) has received global recognition as the leader in the live auctioning of intellectual property assets. Hundreds of key decision makers in the intellectual property and financial communities attend and participate in the auctions and related workshops. Ocean Tomo Auctions has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Reuters and more.

Source: Business Wire

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