Our Work

North Shore Patents, P.C. is a virtual IP law firm offering expertise on the protection of inventions in the software, electrical, and mechanical arts, by leveraging U.S. and foreign intellectual property processes to meet business goals. If you are looking for a law firm in a fancy building who passes their high overhead on to their clients, then we are not the firm for you. We instead spend our time and resources focusing on our clients. Working virtually with innovators throughout the US and abroad, we provide high-quality, common sense, and customized solutions for your IP needs. Effective IP protection does not come from volume; it comes from being smart about what to patent and when. Each client is unique, so we provide a customized IP road map that will support your particular business goals.

Our services include:

• IP strategy advice
• U.S. utility patent application preparation and prosecution
• U.S. design patent application preparation and prosecution
• U.S. and foreign patent portfolio strategy and management
• Prior art and clearance searches
• Patent infringement and validity opinions

Specific areas of experience include the patenting of network and e-commerce applications, cloud computing, software applications, database systems, mobile technology, digital circuitry, design, and consumer devices.

North Shore Patents is physically headquartered in Marblehead, Massachusetts, approximately 15 miles north of Boston.

Patents representing our experience in protecting inventions:

E-Commerce

• 7,917,381 Compensation system for selected paths in hierarchical networks
• 9,390,442 Capturing of Unique Identifier in M-Commerce Transaction
• 9,501,588 Garden Simulation
• 9,792,335 Creating and Discovering Learning Content in a Social Learning System

Cloud Computing

• 8,572,315 Smart Optimization of Tracks for Cloud Computing
• 9,246,778 System to Enhance Performance, Throughput and Reliability of an Existing Cloud Offering

Software Applications

• 7,305,615 Methods and apparatus for accelerating data parsing
• 7,583,662 Voice virtual private network
• 7,979,585 System and method to associate a private user identity with a public user identity
• 8,285,617 Pub/Sub Engine for Automated Processing of FIX Messages
• 8,392,763 Technique for estimation of confidence interval for probability of defect rediscovery
• 8,752,028 Efficient Monitoring in a Software System

Database Systems

• 8,326,824 Methods for Achieving Efficient Coherent Access to Data in a Cluster of Data Processing Computing Nodes
• 8,666,958 Approaches to reducing lock communications in a shared disk database
• 9,519,676 Updating of In-Memory Synopsis Metadata for Inserts in Database Table

Mobile Technology

• 9,030,523 Flow-Control Based Switched Group Video Chat and Real-Time Interactive Broadcast
• 9,161,169 Using Location and Propensity Based Predictive Analytics to Provide Mobile Message QOS
• 9,830,394 Help Service for Identifying Relevant Resources Across a Community and Social Data Streams

Graphic User Interfaces

• 9,164,950 Use Tag Clouds to Visualize Components Related to an Event
• 9,189,135 Three-Dimensional GUI Object Stores in Automation Test Tools
• 9,400,839 Enhanced Keyword Find Operation in a Web Page
• 9,720,592 Mobile Gesture Reporting and Replay with Unresponsive Gestures Identification and Analysis

Digital Circuitry

• 6,487,095 Multiphase zero-volt-switching resonant DC-DC regulator
• 6,630,753 Low cost redundant AC to DC power supply
• 9,298,634 Client Spatial Locality Through the Use of Virtual Request Trackers

Design

• D642,636 Plush toy
• D686522 Jewelry Ring
• D726,245 Eye and Eyeglass Garment
• D793713 Container with Lobster Trap Style Cage

Consumer Devices

• 8,430,060 Rolling and folding pet bed
• 9,049,782 Mobile Device Case with Retractor Reel Assembly for User-Provided Headphones
• 9,442,633 Sports Swing Mechanics Training Device
• 9,532,590 Cooling Tray
• 9,611,002 Motorized Bicycle with Pedal Regeneration with Automatic Assistance