US 9042811

Summary of U.S. Patent No. 9,042,811 (US9042811B2)

Bibliographic Data

Abstract (verbatim from the patent)

"The specification of smart televisions are herein disclosed and enabled. The smart television is a wireless television that includes a wireless communication unit compatible, at least partly, with a protocol within IEEE 802.11, and may include Bluetooth compatibility. The smart television may render digital content received from a wireless mobile information apparatus over the wireless communication unit. The smart television includes an operating system for enabling installation of additional applications for expanding functionalities of the smart television; an output controller for decoding, decompressing, or decrypting the digital content; an image processor for applying one or more of a color, an image enhancement, or a resolution operation; and an output engine for rendering the digital content to a display or a projection medium. The wireless television may further include a touch sensitive display screen for interacting with users. Additionally, the wireless television may include authentication based on biometrics of the user."

Plain-Language Overview of Independent Claims

I could only obtain authoritative, verbatim claim text for Claim 1 (reproduced on the assignee's site, flexiworld.com/patent/us-9042811, and consistent with the Google Patents record). The patent contains 22 claims total; I was not able to retrieve verified text of the remaining independent claims from the searches available to me, so I flag that portion as uncertain rather than guess.

Claim 1 (verbatim text sourced from the assignee's patent page) — a wireless television device claim.
In plain language, Claim 1 covers a wireless output device that is at least a wireless television, separate and distinct from the sending mobile device, and requires all of the following:

• Operating system software that manages application software and allows installation of additional apps to expand functionality;
• An output controller that processes at least part of the digital content and executes at least part of the application software;
• A wireless communication unit (at least partly IEEE 802.11-compatible) that establishes a wireless link and receives "intermediate output data" from a mobile information apparatus (laptop, smart phone, digital camera, or information pad) — the intermediate output data corresponding to the digital content, including compressed image data having two or more image layers, and including image, graphics, video, and/or text elements;
• Security components managing a security procedure with security key authentication to establish a restricted 802.11-compatible link with authorized mobile apparatuses;
• An interpreter that receives digital content over the restricted link and retrieves image data, including at least a decompression operation;
• An image processor performing a color space operation, an optimum output size operation, and an optimum resolution operation on the retrieved image data; and
• An output engine that renders the processed image data to a display screen or projection medium, where at least part of the rendered content was received over the restricted link from an authorized mobile apparatus.

Other independent claims: The patent has 22 claims, and Flexiworld's related-family patents (e.g., US9036181B2, US8989064B2, US9836257B2) typically include multiple independent device/method claims. However, I could not confirm the exact numbering or text of the other independent claims in US9042811 (e.g., whether claims 12 and 22 are independent method/apparatus claims) from the sources retrieved. I do not have authoritative confirmation of their content, so I will not describe them as fact.

Litigation / Docket Search Results (incl. CAFC 2026 check)

• CAFC 2026 dockets: My searches returned no Federal Circuit (CAFC) appeal docket for 2026 involving patent 9042811. I found no CAFC docket entry tied to this patent number. If such an appeal exists, it was not surfaced by the searches I ran; treat this as "no evidence found," not a definitive negative.
• District court / PTAB matters referencing 9042811 (from Google Patents litigation feed, Unified Patents, and Stanford NPE Litigation Database):
  • Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, 2:23-cv-00616 (E.D. Tex., filed Dec. 19, 2023) — dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation (Dkt. 42), no merits ruling; 9042811 was one of seven asserted patents.
  • Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., 2:22-cv-00228 (E.D. Tex., filed Jun. 24, 2022) — asserted against Hisense entities.
  • 2:25-cv-00960 (E.D. Tex.), 6:21-cv-00680 (W.D. Tex.), and 2:26-cv-00229 (E.D. Tex.) — cases listed on the Google Patents record as involving this patent family/patent.
  • IPR2022-01113 (PTAB, petitioner: Unified Patents) — listed as filed, with a "Settlement" status.

Sources

• Google Patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9042811/en
• USPTO cover page (via patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/cc/5f/a2/d22b51a6c8aabd/US9042811.pdf)
• Assignee page: http://www.flexiworld.com/patent/us-9042811/ (claim 1 text and abstract)
• Stanford NPE Litigation Database: https://npe.law.stanford.edu/patent/9042811
• Unified Patents litigation/PTAB portal entries referenced on the Google Patents record

Caveats: (1) No CAFC 2026 appeal was found — my search tool returned no results for that specific query, which may reflect database coverage limits rather than the true absence of an appeal. (2) Only Claim 1's text was verified; I could not confirm the remaining independent claims' wording from authoritative sources and did not want to fabricate them.