Context Directions, LLC

Company overview. Context Directions LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its place of business in New York, NY (261 West 35th Street, Suite 1003). It is a private entity; no revenue, headcount, or market-cap figures are publicly available, and it appears to have no corporate website or operating footprint. Publicly available sources identify it as a patent-assertion entity controlled by Jeffrey M. Gross: Unified Patents has described it as a "Jeffrey M. Gross-controlled NPE," and the Stanford NPE Litigation Database lists it as a patent asserter.

Products / services / operations. Context Directions has no known products, services, or employees. It is a non-practicing entity whose sole apparent activity is enforcing a small family of patents directed to context detection in mobile devices — e.g., U.S. Patent Nos. 9,807,564 ("Method of Detecting Context of a Mobile Device"), 10,142,791 ("Method and System for Context Awareness of a Mobile Device"), and 11,057,738 ("Adaptive Context Detection in Mobile Devices"). The patents describe hierarchical sensor-group/classifier arrangements that detect a device's context (such as being in a moving vehicle) while saving power.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show 18 cases, all brought by Context Directions as plaintiff and none against it — the classic NPE profile. Filings cluster in the Eastern District of Texas (mostly before Judge Rodney Gilstrap), with additional cases in the Western District of Texas (Waco) and the Central District of California.

Notable cases and context. Early targets were device makers: Samsung Electronics (W.D. Tex., 2020), Garmin (C.D. Cal.), Fossil Group (E.D. Tex.), and Suunto (E.D. Tex.). Since 2022 the portfolio has been asserted mainly against automotive and rental-car defendants, including Avis Budget Group, Ean Holdings (Enterprise), Fox Rent A Car, and numerous Texas auto dealers (Gulliver USA, Huffines Chevrolet Lewisville, Wagner Cadillac, Patterson Motors, Peters Chevrolet, Don Herring). Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination of the '791 patent in 2021; the USPTO entered rejections finding means-plus-function limitations lacking algorithmic support. The Gulliver USA case was dismissed with prejudice in February 2026, about 140 days after filing, suggesting a private settlement.