Folks,
You are about to see an IPR disclosure that lists me as the "IETF
Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure" on RFC
6726, a document which has another Qualcomm employee as a co-author. I
wanted to provide a public explanation of what appears to be a *very*
late disclosure. Neither I, nor the co-author of RFC 6726, were
previously aware of the patent identified in this disclosure. While
recently reviewing the patent for other reasons, another Qualcomm
engineer, who is not an IETF participant but happened to be familiar
with FLUTE, realized that the patent might cover the technology. Upon
reviewing the RFC, we decided that the right thing to do would be to
disclose. Since the engineer in question is not an IETF participant, I
chose to put my name on the disclosure. Had either the co-author of the
RFC or I been aware of the patent prior to this time, we would have
disclosed then.
Nobody is ever thrilled when there are late disclosures, but we all
still want disclosures made as soon as reasonably possible once IPR of
this sort is discovered.
pr
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Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. - +1 (858)651-4478