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
• Trademark registration

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

• 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
• 10,217,010 Link of Mobile Devices to Facilitate Mobile Commerce Transactions

Cloud Computing

• 9,246,778 System to Enhance Performance, Throughput and Reliability of an Existing Cloud Offering
• 10,057,662 Flow controlled based synchronized playback of recorded media
• 10,069,888 Playing of media content among multiple devices using a temporal progress
• 10,070,185 Method and system to automatically select data network videos as television shows based on a persona
• 10,334,055 Communication layer with dynamic multi-session management
• 10,361,781 Apparatus for digital aggregation of upstream traffic
• 10,795,721 Transferring tasks from failing devices using IoT

Software Applications

• 8,285,617 Pub/Sub Engine for Automated Processing of FIX Messages
• 9,922,254 Apparatus and method to determine a distance of a visual object using a label
• 9,940,765 Location based secure data device
• 10,002,004 Stream computing application shutdown and restart without data loss
• 10,051,342 Dynamic generation of on-demand video
• 10,235,529 Tracking of web-based document access requests
• 10,739,997 Deletion of blocks in a blockchain
• 10,766,483 Active vehicle virtual reality prevention of predictive motion sickness

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
• 10,216,774 Multiple versions of triggers in a database system
• 10,275,481 Updating of in-memory synopsis metadata for inserts in database table
• 10,01,854 Temporal logical transactions

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
• 10,521,986 Secure transport device

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
• D910,301 Heel shank

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
• 9,993,089 Adjustable bed frame rail riser assemblies
• 10,260,667 Tamper-resistant frictionless connector assembly