US 10805687

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US 10,805,687 B2 — Analyst Summary

Scope note: The authoritative full text you supplied (the Google Patents page) is truncated before the claims, so the claim-level descriptions below are reconstructed from PTAB/docket exhibits (IPR petition claim listings, joint claim construction statements, hearing transcripts) — not from the patent's own claim set. I flag that explicitly. Also note a date inconsistency in my instructions: the system date is 2026-09-16 while your message says April 26, 2026; one retrieved CAFC filing (No. 26-1809, filed 05/11/26) postdates the latter.

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1. Identity / bibliographic data

Later family members (per Google Patents "priority to" entries): US 11,039,218 B1; US 11,770,591 B2; US 12,389,080 B2. A co-asserted sibling, US 10,425,697 B2, is described in the litigation record as sharing "largely identical" specification material.

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2. Abstract (verbatim from the patent, as reproduced in the IPR exhibit)

"Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality."

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3. Plain-language overview of the independent claims

The '687 has four independent claims — 1, 19, 23, and 27 (inferred from the parties' Joint Claim Construction Statement, which lists preambles for exactly those four). The architecture common to all of them is the "two-channel" concept: video on one Internet channel, event data on a separate Internet channel fed by a one-to-many event socket.

Claim 1 (system; claims 1–9 challenged in IPR2024-01305)

• Preamble: a system for delivering, to a first plurality of viewer client devices, copies of a first live stream relating to a first live sporting event, and to a second plurality of viewer client devices, copies of a second live stream relating to either the first or a second live sporting event.
• A) A plurality of media sources that receive the first and second broadcaster live streams and push copies to the respective viewer devices over separate video Internet communication channels.
• B) A control server that periodically retrieves, via the Internet, from an event information provider, event information germane to the live sporting event(s), including score information.
• C) At least one socket server, communicatively coupled to the control server, that receives the event information and transmits it to the viewer device over a first event information Internet communication channel between a first "event socket" (the socket corresponding to that event) and the viewer device.
• In plain terms: a broker that pulls live sports data from a third-party feed and fans it out over a dedicated socket to everyone watching that game, while the video rides a completely separate connection.

Claim 19 (system; claims 19–25, 27–30 challenged in IPR2025-00269)

• Same general architecture, but expressly directed to two different live sporting events — a first plurality of viewers gets copies of a first broadcaster stream (event 1) and a second plurality gets copies of a second broadcaster stream (event 2). The control server periodically retrieves both first and second event information; the socket server transmits first score information over a channel between a first event socket and the first viewer device, and second score information over a channel between a second event socket and the second viewer device. (The '687's specification also contemplates the variant where both broadcasters cover the same event and therefore share the same event socket, with chat separated per stream.)

Claim 23 (method; claim 23 itself was not among the claims challenged in IPR2025-00269)

• A method for providing a first copy of a first live stream relating to a first live sporting event to a first viewer client device, comprising: A) providing the copy over a first video communication channel; B) retrieving, via the Internet, first event information germane to the event; and C) transmitting that event information to the viewer device over a first event information Internet communication channel that is different from the first video communication channel. Dependent claims add chat/system-event sockets, and periodic updating plus queueing an asynchronous message containing the updated event information for transmission to the event socket.

Claim 27 (system, means-plus-function format)

• A system comprising means for providing the copy over a first video channel, means for retrieving (via the Internet) first event information germane to the event, and means for transmitting that event information over a first event information communication channel different from the video channel. Because it is drafted in §112(f) form, its scope turns on the corresponding structure disclosed (media sources, control server, socket server) rather than on the claim language alone — this is the claim the PTAB briefing refers to in structure/function-mapping terms.

Dependent claims add: multiple viewer devices and multiple copies per event; chat/system-event sockets per stream; the same event socket shared across broadcasters of the same event; per-event periodic update + asynchronous-queue mechanics; and chat information transmitted on chat/system-event Internet communication channels.

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4. Litigation and PTAB / CAFC posture (relevant to valuation and validity risk)

PTAB — the '687 specifically:

• IPR2024-01305, Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc., filed 2024-08-22 (challenged claims 1–9; grounds: Ellis (US 2014/0229992) in view of Spivey (US 2016/0036910), and Herzog (US 2015/0163379) alternatives). Hearing held 2025-12-18. Google Patents flags this docket as reaching a Final Written Decision. A Bloomberg Law report dated 2026-03-05 states that the challenged claims were held unpatentable as obvious over prior art disclosing sports-media access/display, real-time live-event data broadcasting, and time-synchronization of video and data in a mobile device — and that the Board also denied a Genius Sports request (the item's text is truncated, so I cannot state what was denied with confidence). If accurate, this is adverse to claim 1 and its dependents.
• IPR2024-01307, Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc. — also on the '687; institution granted 2025-03-13; flagged as reaching a Final Written Decision.
• IPR2025-00269, Sportradar AG v. SportsCastr Inc., filed 2024-12-11 (challenged claims 19–25, 27–30, i.e., the second half of the claim set) — listed on Google Patents as "Not Instituted (Procedural)."
• IPR2025-00268, IPR2025-00315, IPR2025-00316 — also listed against this family as Not Instituted (Procedural).
• Related family IPRs referenced in the same hearing: IPR2024-01308/-01309 (US 11,039,218) and IPR2024-01310/-01311 (US 10,425,697).

CAFC (2026):

• SportsCastr Inc v. Genius Sports Ltd, No. 26-1809 — appeal filed 05/11/2026, appeal from PTAB IPR2024-01305 (per a CAFC docket aggregator). Outcome not yet shown; judges not yet assigned.
• No. 26-1810 — a second Federal Circuit case listed on the Google Patents litigation section for this patent. I did not find an authoritative docket page for 26-1810 in my search and cannot confirm its origin (likely the companion IPR, but I will not assert that).

District court (relevant to who is asserting the patent):

• SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., E.D. Tex. 2:23-cv-00471 and 2:23-cv-00472 (Sportscastr as plaintiff; asserted the '687, '218, and '697).
• Sportradar US LLC et al. v. Sportscastr, Inc. d/b/a Panda Interactive, D. Del. 1:24-cv-00170 (filed 2024-02-08 — declaratory judgment of non-infringement).
• E.D. Tex. 2:25-cv-00335 (Sportradar US LLC v. SportsCastr), where the complaint excerpt references independent claim 1 and dependent claim 4 of the '687.

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5. Uncertainty / confidence flags

• High confidence: title, application number, filing date, issue date, abstract, inventor list, assignee chain, examiner, 30 claims / 56 sheets, and the office action history (the Sportradar petition notes the Examiner issued a notice of allowance on 2020-06-17 without any §102/§103 rejection, and that the reasons-for-allowance statement was conclusory).
• Moderate confidence (secondary sources only): the identity of the independent claims as 1, 19, 23, 27. I derived this from the Joint Claim Construction Statement's preamble list; the claim set itself was not in my authoritative source. Treat claim 23's and claim 27's precise wording as reconstructed — the IPR exhibit I relied on was partially elided (e.g., bracketed text missing mid-limitation), so word-for-word quotes should be verified against the patent's claims.
• Unverified: the Bloomberg Law 2026-03-05 outcome (claims unpatentable) is a secondary report with truncated text; I have not confirmed the exact claims cancelled or the final written decision text. Note the tension: Google Patents still reports the patent's legal status as Active, and a March 2026 IPR loss on claims 1–9 would not necessarily dispose of claims 19–30 (which Sportradar failed to get instituted).
• Do not use: two retrieved AI-generated case synopses label the '687's title "System for Providing Synchronized Live Video and Data Feeds" and "Server and Memory Storage Architecture for Providing an Audio and/or Visual Feed and a Separate Event Data Feed." Those are paraphrases, not the patent's title; I did not adopt them.

Primary sources used: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10805687/en; https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2025-00269/Sportradar_AG/12-11-2024-Petitioner/Exhibit-1003-US_Patent_10805687/; https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01305/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/12-19-2024-Patent_Owner/Exhibit-2003-Joint_Claim_Construction_Statement/; https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01307/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/03-13-2025-Board/Institution_Decision__Grant-8-Granting_Institution_of_Inter_Partes_Review_35_USC_%C2%A7_314/; https://ai-lab-cl-prod.azurewebsites.net/case/cafc/26-1809/sportscastr-inc-v-genius-sports-ltd; https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/case-patents-[obviousness](/resources/obviousness-and-section-103)-p-t-a-b-737; https://ptacts.uspto.gov/ptacts/public-informations/petitions/[1557053](/patent/1557053)/download-documents.

I'll research the litigation record for US 10,805,687 across litigation databases, PTAB, and the Federal Circuit.

Good progress. Let me dig into the two E.D. Tex. cases and check for any additional litigation.

Important new lead — a February 2026 settlement. Let me run down the current status of both E.D. Tex. cases and check for any other fora.

Litigation Report — U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687 B2

Bottom line: The '687 has been asserted in one offensive campaign — filed by the patent owner, SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a PANDA Interactive), against two competitors on October 5, 2023 in the Eastern District of Texas — plus one defensive declaratory-judgment action brought by Sportradar. Everything is in the E.D. Tex. now, consolidated under Judge Gilstrap, and the lead case settled in February 2026. I found no ITC investigation, no foreign litigation, and no third-party (NPE) suit naming this patent.

Date flag (carried forward): your task says "Current Date: April 26, 2026"; the system header says 2026-09-21. I treat the 2026 records as live and flag items whose status may have moved.

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1. Litigation table

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2. Case detail

2.1 SportsCastr Inc. v. Sportradar Group, AG — E.D. Tex. 2:23-cv-00472-JRG (LEAD)

• Filed 2023-10-05; Judge Rodney Gilstrap; Marshall Division. Asserted three patents: 10,805,687; 11,039,218; 10,425,697. Service was not executed until 2023-12-14 (the parties disputed the delay).
• Amended complaint 2024-03-08 added Sportradar AG as a defendant and added U.S. 11,871,088 — i.e., the '687 was on the docket from day one and remained asserted.
• Sportradar moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction / transfer to Delaware. Denied 2024-09-17 — the court found personal jurisdiction over both Swiss defendants and rejected the "first-to-obtain-jurisdiction" first-to-file theory, citing In re Seattle SpinCo.
• Consolidation order 2024-10-15 (entered): -00472 designated LEAD; -00471 (Genius) MEMBER; "individual cases remain active for trial."
• Sportradar answered and counterclaimed for unpatentability, invalidity, and non-infringement (2024-10-15).
• Antitrust overlay: PANDA's Second Amended Complaint (2025-02-14) added antitrust claims (Sherman Act / TFEAA). Genius moved to strike; denied 2025-06-10 (Dkt. 224) because the Docket Control Order only required leave to add patents, not new causes of action.
• Schedule: DCO Doc. 93 set Markman 2025-05-09, trial 2025-11-07. Those dates slipped — a Sportradar PTAB filing (2025-07-28) described a scheduled trial date of September 14, 2026 and a Markman hearing in January 2026. A 2026-02-17 report describes trial as "set to begin Feb. 27." ⚠️ These trial dates do not reconcile; treat the schedule as unresolved and verify against the live docket.
• OUTCOME — SETTLED. Sportradar and PANDA filed a joint motion on February 13, 2026 for a 30-day stay of all proceedings, reported February 17, 2026, to finalize a settlement agreement and file dismissal papers. Terms not disclosed. This resolves the lead case against the Sportradar defendants, including the '687 assertions against Sportradar.

2.2 SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., et al. — E.D. Tex. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (MEMBER)

• Filed 2023-10-05, same day, same three patents. Defendant group: Genius Sports Ltd., Genius Sports Media Ltd., Genius Sports Technologies Ltd., Genius Sports UK Ltd., Genius Sports Group Ltd., Maven Topco Ltd., Maven Midco Ltd., Maven Debtco Ltd., Maven Bidco Ltd.
• The '687 was pleaded at the claim level: the complaint's infringement theory charts independent claim 19 against Genius's streaming/betting platform, mapping the accused "long running socket"/WebSocket data delivery (with third-party Ably services) to the claimed "control server" → "socket server" → "second event socket" architecture.
• 11,871,088 was added to this member case (the '088 petition states it was filed September 25, 2024 in SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., 2:23-cv-00471-JRG).
• Consolidated into -00472 (lead) on 2024-10-15 for all pretrial issues. Genius answered and counterclaimed for invalidity/non-infringement on 2024-12-09.
• PANDA filed a Third Amended Complaint adding antitrust claims (2025-02-14); Genius's motion to strike was denied 2025-06-10.
• Status: no settlement found; no final judgment found. This case is the one still carrying live invalidity exposure — Genius won two Final Written Decisions on the '687 and PANDA has appealed. ⚠️ Note: because the two cases were consolidated only "for all pretrial issues" and "remain active for trial," the February 2026 Sportradar settlement does not, on the record I retrieved, resolve the Genius member case. Whether the district court's stay order touched -00471 is unverified — check the lead-case docket.

2.3 & 2.4 Sportradar's declaratory-judgment actions (D. Del. 1:24-cv-00170 → E.D. Tex. 2:25-cv-00335)

• Filed 2024-02-08 in the District of Delaware by Sportradar US LLC, Sportradar Solutions LLC, and Sportradar AG (the parent, Sportradar Group AG, was deliberately not a party), seeking DJ of non-infringement and an injunction on the '687, '218, and '697 — a race-to-the-courthouse response to the October 2023 Texas suits.
• D. Del. outcome: Panda's motion to dismiss/transfer/stay was granted in part — the court invoked the first-to-file rule and 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and transferred to E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, before Judge Gilstrap (Order 2025-03-26, Judge John Campbell Barker; the case had been reassigned to Judge Barker from Judge Colm F. Connolly on 2024-08-01). The court's reasoning is set out in the Opinion and Order at D.I. 23.
• E.D. Tex. outcome: transferred in 2025-04-04 as 2:25-cv-00335; the FINAL Report to the Commissioner identifies the patents as US 10,805,687 B2; US 11,039,218 B1; US 10,425,697 B2. Sportradar filed a Notice of Dismissal Without Prejudice on 2025-04-09, and Judge Gilstrap entered an order on 2025-04-14 dismissing all claims without prejudice, each party bearing its own costs, and closing the case.

Reading of the DJ arc: Sportradar used the DJ action to force forum/venue issues, then voluntarily dismissed once the Texas case was proceeding before Judge Gilstrap — consistent with it also filing the six-petition IPR cluster (IPR2025-00266, -00268, -00269, -00315, -00316 and related) rather than litigating validity in Delaware.

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3. Contested proceedings that are not district-court litigation (for completeness)

These are AIA trials and appeals, not "litigation" in the PACER sense, but they are the controlling events for the '687. Summary only — the substance is already set out in the earlier PTAB section.

CAFC dockets tied to this patent: 26-1809 (from IPR2024-01305) and 26-1810 (from IPR2024-01307), both docketed May 2026, both pending, no decision found.

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4. Fora checked with no '687 litigation found

• ITC (Section 337): no investigation found naming U.S. 10,805,687.
• Foreign / UPC: none found. ⚠️ A search returned a UPC Local Division (The Hague) confidentiality order in Ericsson v. Transsion-type proceedings (UPC-CFI-0001568/2025, -0001791/2025, -0001793/2025). That is unrelated — it does not involve the '687, SportsCastr, Genius Sports, or Sportradar, and should be disregarded.
• Other U.S. district courts: none beyond D. Del. 1:24-cv-00170 and E.D. Tex. 2:25-cv-00335 found. No third-party/NPE suits. Google Patents' "First worldwide family litigation filed" link (Darts-ip, family 61073027) points to family-level data that I could not open — so a foreign family member could be in suit somewhere; unverified.
• Note on the Google Patents "Petitioner: Unified Patents PTAB Data" string: this is a data-license attribution, not a party. Repeated here only because it appears on every litigation entry for this patent; the actual parties are Genius Sports Ltd. and Sportradar AG.

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5. Corrections / resolutions of items flagged in earlier sections

1. RESOLVED — IPR2024-01307 per-claim disposition. The earlier section flagged the -1307 FWD disposition as unverified. The FWD text confirms: "we decide that claims 19–25 and 27–30 are unpatentable as obvious over the combination of Ellis and Spivey." The "practical extinguishment" question on claims 19–30 at the Board is now supported by the decision's own text, not just an aggregator outcome field.
2. RESOLVED — IPR2025-00315 status. Earlier sections reported a conflict between "Not Instituted – Procedural" and a projected FWD date. The docket shows a Director Discretionary Decision Deny dated 2025-07-16 with a refund approved 2025-08-05 — i.e., denied, not instituted. No § 315(e)(2) estoppel attaches to Sportradar from it.
3. RETRACTED READING — the Sportradar settlement changes the earlier framing. Prior sections characterized the district-court posture as live and heading to trial. As of February 2026, the lead case (Sportradar) settled, with trial imminent. The earlier statement that the case was "asserting the '687, '218, and '697" is correct but now superseded as to Sportradar's exposure.
4. STILL OPEN — IPR2025-00269. The conflict persists; the projected FWD date (2026-08-20) has now passed relative to the user-stated date of 2026-04-26 and is in the past relative to the system date. Pull PTAB E2E.
5. Case-number caution. The IPR2024-01305 institution decision lists the Genius related matter as "Genius Sports Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-04771." The actual E.D. Tex. case number is 2:23-cv-00471. Per the no-auto-correction rule I am reporting the source string literally and flagging the discrepancy rather than silently normalizing it — the "04771" appears to be a source typo, but it is the string the Board's decision contains.

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6. Confidence and sources

High confidence (primary/authoritative documents):

• E.D. Tex. 2:23-cv-00472-JRG (lead) and 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (member): case numbers, filing date Oct. 5, 2023, parties, consolidation order Oct. 15, 2024, Judge Gilstrap, the June 10, 2025 antitrust order, and the fact that the '687 was pleaded (claim 19 charted against Genius).
• D. Del. 1:24-cv-00170 → E.D. Tex. 2:25-cv-00335: filing date Feb. 8, 2024, the March 26, 2025 transfer order, the April 4, 2025 transfer, the April 9/14, 2025 dismissal without prejudice, and the FINAL Report listing US 10,805,687 B2; US 11,039,218 B1; US 10,425,697 B2.
• The February 2026 Sportradar/PANDA settlement and the joint motion for a 30-day stay filed Feb. 13, 2026 (multiple independent outlets, including the Law360 case page and a Bloomberg-sourced summary).
• IPR2025-00315 = Director Discretionary Denial, July 16, 2025; IPR2025-00268 = Discretionary Denial, June 25, 2025.
• IPR2024-01307 FWD text holding claims 19–25 and 27–30 unpatentable over Ellis + Spivey.

Moderate confidence (secondary sources only):

• The exact trial date(s) in the consolidated E.D. Tex. case — I have three mutually inconsistent data points (2025-11-07, 2026-02-27, 2026-09-14).
• That the Genius member case is unaffected by the Sportradar settlement — inference from the consolidation order's "remain active for trial" language, not confirmed by a court order.

Explicitly unverified — do not rely without checking:

• Status of IPR2025-00269 and IPR2025-00316.
• Whether a dismissal with prejudice was ever entered in 2:23-cv-00472 (the Feb. 2026 report describes a stay pending dismissal papers).
• Whether the settlement included a license to the '687, and on what terms — undisclosed.
• Any foreign case on a family member.
• The CAFC outcomes in 26-1809 / 26-1810.

Verify at the source: E.D. Tex. docket via PACER (case nos. 2:23-cv-00472-JRG and 2:23-cv-00471-JRG — check the lead-case docket for the settlement stay order and dismissal); D. Del. D.I. 23 for the transfer opinion; PTAB E2E for IPR2025-00269/-00316; CourtListener / CAFC for 26-1809 and 26-1810.

Primary sources retrieved: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Delaware_District_Court/1--24-cv-00170/Sportradar_US_LLC_et_al_v._Sportscastr_Inc._d-b-a_Panda_Interactive/docs/23.pdf (transfer opinion, full case history); https://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/2:2025cv00335/[237075](/patent/237075) (D.I. 23–27); https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/texas/txedce/2:2023cv00472/[225342/224](https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/search/patent/reelFrameDetail?reelFrame=225342-0224)/ (June 10, 2025 antitrust order); https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.[225342](/patent/225342)/gov.uscourts.txed.225342.57.0.pdf (Sept. 17, 2024 personal-jurisdiction order); https://www.law360.com/cases/694af36e18d33004625a060f (Feb. 17, 2026 settlement); https://www.cbinsights.com/company/panda-interactive (Feb. 17, 2026, trial set for Feb. 27, joint motion filed Feb. 13); IPR2024-01305 Institution Decision and IPR2024-01307 FWD (Board, Mar. 11, 2026) as retrieved; https://ipverse.greyb.com/ptab-web/cases/case-details/IPR2024-01305 and /IPR2025-00268 (filing/institution/termination dates); https://www.docketalarm.com/search/?f=q_search_within-docket%3A(IPR2025-00315) (July 16, 2025 Director Discretionary Decision Deny; Aug. 5, 2025 refund); https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-10805687-B2; https://patents.google.com/patent/US10805687/en.

I'll research the PTAB proceedings on US10805687 before writing the analysis.

Significant finding — the ODP block appears stale. Let me dig deeper into claim-level outcomes and the remaining proceedings.

PTAB / AIA Trial Analysis — US 10,805,687 B2

⚠️ Data-source discrepancy — read this first. The structured "PTAB proceedings on file" block states the USPTO ODP API returns no AIA trial proceedings for this patent. That is wrong / stale. The public record (the patent's own Google Patents litigation feed, PTAB dockets, and CAFC docket entries) shows six AIA proceedings against the '687 patent — and two of them produced Final Written Decisions holding all challenged claims unpatentable. Proceeding numbers below are taken only from sources I actually retrieved; nothing is invented. Where a data point is unverified, I say so.

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Proceedings overview

Six AIA proceedings have been filed against US 10,805,687: two reached Final Written Decision (both invalidating every challenged claim and both now on appeal at the Federal Circuit), and four were not instituted (confirmed discretionary denial in one; the Google Patents legal-status feed carries "Not Instituted – Procedural" for the other three). Bottom line for a defendant: the entire claim set that has ever been asserted and tested — claims 1–9 and 19–25 and 27–30 — stands canceled by the Board, but because both FWDs are on appeal, the cancellations are not yet final; the defensive posture is "the patent is invalidated at the PTAB but still breathing on appeal — do not settle on the assumption the claims are dead, and do not assume they are alive either."

Patent Owner in all six: SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a PANDA Interactive).

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IPR2024-01305 — Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review (35 U.S.C. §§ 311–319)
• Filed: 2024-08-22
• Status: "Final Written Decision – Appealed" (FWD issued 2026-03-11)
• Judge panel: Hearing held 2025-12-18 before Administrative Patent Judges Thu A. Dang, Stephen E. Belisle, and Jon M. Jurgovan (confirmed verbatim from the hearing transcript). Third-party aggregators separately list Barbara A. Parvis, John A. Hudalla, and Sharon Fenick as the presiding/institution panel; a Panel Change Order dated 2025-11-07 appears on the -1307 docket, consistent with a mid-trial panel reconfiguration. Treat the institution panel as unverified.
• Petition grounds: claims 1–9, all under pre-AIA-format § 103 obviousness, on three grounds:
  • Ground 1A — claims 1, 8, 9 obvious over Ellis (US 2014/0229992) in view of Spivey (US 2016/0036910);
  • Ground 1B — claims 2–7 obvious over Ellis + Spivey + Herzog (US 2015/0163379);
  • Ground 2 — claims 1–9 obvious over Herzog + Spivey + Ellis (alternative primary reference).
  • No § 112 or § 101 grounds were presented.
• Institution decision: Instituted 2025-03-13 on all grounds as to claims 1–9 ("we institute an inter partes review as to claims 19–25 and 27–30… on all grounds" is the parallel language in -1307; -1305 was instituted the same day and the Board was "satisfied by Petitioner's stated reasons for filing two petitions"). The Board rejected PO's § 314(a) discretionary-denial theory as unraised and imposed no General Plastic limit on the two-petition strategy; petitioner ranked -1307 first and -1305 second.
• Final Written Decision: 2026-03-11 (Paper 46) — the judgment line reads "Final Written Decision Determining All Challenged Claims Unpatentable; Denying Petitioner's Motion to Exclude (35 U.S.C. § 318(a); 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c))." Claims 1–9 are all unpatentable. The Board resolved the two dispositive disputes against PO: (1) that the Ellis–Spivey combination was inoperable "due to omission of a server component that functions to relay data to Ellis's user equipment," and (2) "whether Spivey's topic queues disclose the claimed 'event socket'" — the Board "conclude[d] they do not negate Petitioner's combination." On the merits of Ground 1A it held "we decide that claims 1, 8, and 9 would have been unpatentable as obvious over the combination of Ellis and Spivey."
  • Claim-level outcome I can state with confidence: claims 1, 8, and 9 (Ground 1A) and claims 2–7 (Ground 1B) → unpatentable; the judgment line confirms all challenged claims (1–9) fell. Independent claim 1 is canceled.
• Settlement / termination: No settlement. The proceeding ran to FWD on the merits and was terminated 2026-03-11.
• Appeal: Yes — SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., No. 26-1809 (Fed. Cir., docketed 2026-05-11), appeal from PTAB originating case IPR2024-01305. Status as of my research: pending, no judge assignment, no decision. (CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=%2226-1809%22; docket record retrieved at https://ai-lab.exparte.com/case/cafc/26-1809/sportscastr-inc-v-genius-sports-ltd)
• Defensive value: Claims 1–9 are canceled by the Board. Any infringement theory built on claim 1 (or 2–9) must now confront a § 315(e)(2)-estopped petitioner, an FWD of unpatentability, and Blonder-Tongue nonmutual issue preclusion once the appeal is exhausted. But because the judgment is on appeal, a demand letter citing claim 1 is not yet frivolous — it is stale, and you should say so in the first response.

FWD source: https://gaeflexstaging-dot-docketupdate.appspot.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01305/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/03-11-2026-Board/Final_Written_Decision__original-46-Final_Written_Decision__JUDGMENT_Final_Written_Decision_Determining_All_Challenged_Claims_Unpatentable_Denying_Petitioner%E2%80%99s_Motion_to_Exclude__35_USC_%C2%A7_318a_37_CFR_%C2%A7_4264c_/

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IPR2024-01307 — Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: 2024-08-22
• Status: "Final Written Decision – Appealed" (FWD 2026-03-11; terminated 2026-03-11)
• Judge panel: Same trial/hearing panel as -1305 — APJs Dang, Belisle, and Jurgovan (joint hearing on 2025-12-18 covering -1305, -1307, -1308, -1309, -1310, -1311). A Panel Change Order (2025-11-07) appears on this docket. Aggregators list Parvis/Hudalla/Fenick among the judges — unverified as the merits panel.
• Petition grounds: claims 19–25 and 27–30 (12 claims; claim 26 was not challenged):
  • Ground 1 — § 103 obviousness over Ellis in view of Spivey;
  • Ground 2 — § 103 obviousness over Herzog in view of Ellis and Spivey.
  • Same three references (Ellis, Spivey, Herzog) and same expert (Dr. Stephen B. Wicker) as -1305.
• Institution decision: 2025-03-13, instituted on all grounds ("we institute an inter partes review as to claims 19–25 and 27–30 of the '687 patent on all grounds of unpatentability presented"). Claim construction: the Board declined to construe any term, noting "the parties do not dispute the meaning of any claim term." POSA: the Board applied Patent Owner's formulation and noted it "would reach the same determination under Petitioner's formulation."
• Final Written Decision: 2026-03-11 (Paper 45). Recorded outcome: "Unpatentable." ⚠️ Flag: unlike -1305, I was not able to retrieve the claim-by-claim disposition text of the -1307 FWD. Its docket title is the neutral "Final Written Decision original" and the aggregator outcome field reads only "Unpatentable." Do not treat "all of 19–25 and 27–30 were canceled" as verified until you pull Paper 45 from PTAB E2E. The FWD does confirm Ground 1 was decided on Ellis + Spivey and that the parties disputed POSA level without it affecting the result.
• Settlement / termination: No settlement; terminated on the FWD date.
• Appeal: Yes — Patent Owner's Notice of Appeal filed 2026-05-06 ("Patent Owner's Notice of Appeal (-1307)"). The corresponding Federal Circuit docket is 26-1810 (appearing in the patent's litigation feed alongside 26-1809); I retrieved no docket detail for 26-1810 — treat its contents as unverified. Docketed: 2026-05 (exact date unconfirmed).
• Defensive value: If Paper 45 confirms the full challenged set fell, claims 19–30 (minus 26) are likewise canceled at the Board. Because claim 19 appears to be the independent claim of that set, that would remove the second independent claim family from the litigation. Verify the paper before relying on it in a filing.

FWD source: https://gaeflexstaging-dot-docketupdate.appspot.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01307/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/03-11-2026-Board/Final_Written_Decision__original-45-Final_Written_Decision__original/
Institution decision: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01307/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/03-13-2025-Board/Institution_Decision__Grant-8-Granting_Institution_of_Inter_Partes_Review_35_USC_%C2%A7_314/
Joint hearing transcript (all six Genius IPRs): https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2024-01305/Genius_Sports_Ltd._v._SportsCastr_Inc/01-07-2026-Board/Other__Hearing_transcript-45-Other__Hearing_transcript/

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IPR2025-00268 — Sportradar AG v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: 2024-12-11 (concurrent with IPR2025-00269; Sportradar filed a parallel cluster against the '697, '687, and '218 patents — e.g., IPR2025-00266 targets the '697 patent)
• Status: "Discretionary Denial" — Director Discretionary Decision: Deny, issued 2025-06-25; terminated 2025-06-25. Refund approved 2025-08-05.
• Judge panel: Not retrieved. A Director-level (not panel-level) discretionary decision, so a merits panel designation may not exist.
• Petition grounds: ⚠️ Not confirmed for the claim set. The docket exhibits include Interim Processes for PTAB Workload Management FAQs, a Petitioner's Reply to Opposition to Motion for Joinder, and PO's Opposition to Petitioner's Motion for Joinder, plus the Vidal Sotera stipulation memo and E.D. Tex. docket-control orders. That record pattern is consistent with a follow-on/joinder petition challenged on discretionary grounds, but I did not retrieve the decision text and will not characterize its reasoning.
• Institution decision: Denied 2025-06-25 (discretionary).
• Final Written Decision: None — never instituted.
• Settlement / termination: N/A; terminated on denial, petition fee refunded.
• Appeal: None found.
• Defensive value: No estoppel attaches to Sportradar from this petition — § 315(e)(2) estoppel requires an instituted IPR that reaches a final written decision. Sportradar therefore remains free to assert the same art in district court.

https://ipverse.greyb.com/ptab-web/cases/case-details/IPR2025-00268

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IPR2025-00269 — Sportradar AG v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: 2024-12-11
• Status: ⚠️ Conflicting sources. Google Patents' legal-status feed labels it "Not Instituted – Procedural." A separate docket record for the Sportradar cluster lists "Barbara Parvis, John Hudalla, presiding" and a "projected final written decision due date … August 20, 2026" — a figure that can only be generated by an institution decision. I could not resolve this conflict. Pull the PTAB E2E docket before relying on either characterization.
• Judge panel: Barbara Parvis, John Hudalla (per one aggregator; unverified).
• Petition grounds: claims 19–25 and 27–30 under § 103, on the same Ellis / Spivey / Herzog combination theory as Genius's IPR2024-01307 (Sportradar's expert declaration work was compared against Genius's Wicker declaration in Exhibit 1049). This is a duplicate challenge to the same claims by a second petitioner.
• Institution decision: Unresolved — see status conflict above.
• Final Written Decision: None confirmed. If instituted (projected 2026-08-20 FWD date), a decision may have issued on or about 2026-08-20, i.e., within days of this analysis — check immediately.
• Settlement / termination: None found.
• Appeal: None found.
• Defensive value: If -00269 was in fact instituted and decided the same way as -1307, the 19–30 claim family is triply invalidated. If it was denied, then Sportradar is not estopped and its prior art remains live for the district court.

https://ai-lab.exparte.com/case/ptab/IPR2025-00269/doc/summary/3
Docket search: https://www.docketalarm.com/search/?q=patent:([10805687](/patent/10805687))

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IPR2025-00315 — Sportradar AG v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: Not confirmed (a docket record associates 2024-12-14 with the case; inconsistent with the 2025 number series — unverified)
• Status: ⚠️ Conflicting. Google Patents feed: "Not Instituted – Procedural." A docket record for the same number states a projected FWD due date of 2026-08-20 with APJs Barbara Parvis and John Hudalla presiding — implying institution. Unresolved.
• Judge panel: Barbara Parvis, John Hudalla (unverified)
• Petition grounds: Not retrieved. Assigned to the '687 patent in the Google Patents litigation feed.
• Institution decision / FWD / settlement / appeal: Not retrieved.
• Defensive value: Unknown. This is the single biggest open item for a defendant — if -00315 was instituted, there may be an FWD on or about 2026-08-20 that has not yet propagated to the feeds I searched.

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IPR2025-00316 — Sportradar AG v. SportsCastr Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: Not confirmed
• Status: Google Patents feed: "Not Instituted – Procedural" (third-party detail not retrieved)
• Judge panel / grounds / institution / FWD / settlement / appeal: Not retrieved.
• Defensive value: Treated as a non-instituted Sportradar duplicate; no estoppel flows from it. Verify before relying.

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Strategic summary

Claim status on US 10,805,687. The tested claim sets are 1–9 (CANCELED at the Board via IPR2024-01305) and 19–25 and 27–30 (recorded "Unpatentable" in IPR2024-01307, per-claim detail unverified). Claim 26 and any claims numbered 10–18 were not challenged by Genius Sports and I could not confirm that any Sportradar petition covered them — they are UNTESTED, and the practical question for any defendant is whether the patent owner can rewrite the case around them. Note the pre-existing prosecution record: the '687 patent issued with a terminal disclaimer ("This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer"), and it is a continuation of application 16/267,887 (now US 10,425,697), which is itself under attack in IPR2024-01308/-01309. Family-wide exposure (also US 11,039,218 in IPR2024-01310/-01311; Sportradar cluster at IPR2025-00266 et al.) means the patent owner's litigation leverage is degrading across the portfolio, not just on the '687.

Estoppel landscape. § 315(e)(2) estoppel attached to Genius Sports Ltd. (and its real parties-in-interest and privies) on 2026-03-11, the FWD date, in both -1305 and -1307. Genius raised Ellis, Spivey, and Herzog, and estoppel reaches not only those references but any ground Genius raised or reasonably could have raised — so Genius cannot now run a second, better invalidity theory in E.D. Tex. on the same claims. For Sportradar, the picture is different: the confirmed discretionary denial of -00268 produced no estoppel, and the "Not Instituted – Procedural" labels on -00269, -00315, and -00316 likewise would produce none. Sportradar's Ellis/Spivey/Herzog ground therefore remains available in the district court — which is exactly the asymmetry the 2024–2025 § 314(a)/§ 325(d) discretionary-denial regime creates. For a new defendant with no prior IPR of its own, all prior-art grounds are available, including Ellis/Spivey/Herzog and any additional art; the practical limitation is the § 315(b) one-year bar measured from service of the first complaint against you, and the § 315(e)(1) bar if you later file an IPR that reaches FWD.

Pattern signals. This is a competitor-driven, not aggregator-driven, invalidity campaign: the petitioners of record are Genius Sports Ltd. and Sportradar AG, both of which were sued by SportsCastr in E.D. Tex. (2:23-cv-00471 against Genius; 2:23-cv-00472 against Sportradar; plus 2:25-cv-00335 and a D. Del. declaratory-judgment action, 1:24-cv-00170). ⚠️ Correction on the defensive-aggregator question: the Google Patents litigation feed displays "Petitioner: 'Unified Patents PTAB Data' by Unified Patents … licensed under Creative Commons" on every entry — that is a data-source attribution string that has been templated into the petitioner field, not a party designation. I found no evidence that Unified Patents filed any petition against this patent. The patent owner has been aggressive on appeal — notices of appeal within ~8 weeks of both FWDs, with two Federal Circuit dockets (26-1809, 26-1810) opened in May 2026 — but as of my research neither appeal has been decided. That is the pivotal fact: six IPRs and zero final judgments.

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Recommended next steps

1. Pull the primary documents immediately; do not brief off aggregators. The two records that change the answer on claims 19–30 are (a) IPR2024-01307 Paper 45, FWD, 2026-03-11, for claim-level disposition, and (b) the real-time status of IPR2025-00269 and IPR2025-00315, which are the only two proceedings whose status I could not resolve. Use PTAB E2E (https://e2e.uspto.gov) and the USPTO PTAB Decisions page (https://www.uspto.gov/patents/patent-trial-and-appeal-board/ptab-decisions). The one document I can hand you with a verbatim disposition is the -1305 FWD: "Final Written Decision Determining All Challenged Claims Unpatentable" — i.e., claims 1–9 of US 10,805,687 are canceled, with the Board holding "we decide that claims 1, 8, and 9 would have been unpatentable as obvious over the combination of Ellis and Spivey." Quote that line and the paper number in any Rule 11 letter or motion to stay.
2. If you are a defendant being asserted on claims 1–9: say so plainly. Those claims were held unpatentable, the losing party is Genius Sports, not you, and there is a live FWD you can put in front of the court as persuasive/supporting authority under Blonder-Tongue once the appeal resolves. Move to stay pending 26-1809.
3. If the demand cites claims 19–25 or 27–30: verify Paper 45 first, then treat it the same way — but expect the patent owner to argue the appeal suspends the preclusive effect of any cancellation. That argument is correct as to finality, which is why a stay, not a dismissal, is the right ask.
4. If the demand cites claims 10–18 or claim 26: you are in untested territory. Those claims were never reached by the Board and are the patent owner's most likely fallback. Commission your own claim chart and invalidity position now — do not assume the family-wide PTAB losses carry over.
5. Trial-stage milestones on anything still alive: the PTAB's statutory deadline is one year from institution (35 U.S.C. § 316(a)(11)). For IPR2025-00315/-00269, the only FWD date I have is a projected 2026-08-20, which is already in the past as of today — which is precisely why those two statuses must be re-checked before you finalize any position.
6. Watch the appeals. CAFC 26-1809 (from IPR2024-01305) and 26-1810 (from IPR2024-01307) are pending with no decision. Track them on CourtListener and the Federal Circuit docket. A Rule 36 or a merits affirmance converts the PTAB wins into cancelled claims and hard issue preclusion; a reversal revives the asserted claim set with a fully developed record against you.

Constraints observed: I did not fabricate any proceeding number; all six proceeding numbers come from the patent's litigation feed and PTAB dockets. Claim ranges are quoted exactly as the petitions/institution decisions state them ("claims 1–9"; "claims 19–25 and 27–30"). Where the source did not support a claim-level finding — notably the -1307 FWD disposition and the status of IPR2025-00269/-00315/-00316 — I have flagged it as unverified rather than asserting it.

I'll research the assignment record for US 10,805,687 across USPTO Assignment Center, Google Patents legal events, and corroborating sources.

Key reel/frame data is emerging. Let me pin down the specific records and the correspondent of record.

Assignment & Ownership Analysis — US 10,805,687 B2

Source-access caveat up front: I could not open the USPTO Assignment Center detail view directly (my tool is web search only; assignmentcenter.uspto.gov and assignment.us.gov returned no directly readable record pages). The reel/frame and date data below therefore come from (a) the Google Patents "Legal Events" record for US 10,805,687 (authoritative text supplied), (b) a Google Patents Legal-Events snippet for sibling property US 10,425,697, and (c) PTAB record text. The Assignment Center does have recorded post-issuance records for this patent — that is established on the face of the '687's own record, because one recorded document expressly corrects an earlier reel/frame in this chain. Correspondence fields (the attorney/agent of record who filed each recording) were not retrievable and are reported as gaps, not guessed.

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Inventors

• Employer attribution is derived from the (71) Applicant: SportsCastr.LIVE, New York, NY on the patent face and from the fact that all four inventors are the assignors on the inventor-side assignment recorded at reel 049017/0502. I could not verify individual titles/roles (e.g., founder vs. engineer) from a primary source.
• Notable pattern — none adverse. All four inventors assigned in a single instrument executed 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-02 and none dropped out of the chain; every later record traces from the corporate assignees, not from individuals. There is no evidence of inventor retirement, departure, or individual grant that would signal a portfolio breakup. Conversely, there is also no evidence anyone retained rights — the chain is clean, not fragmented.
• Note the timing: the inventors signed in April 2019, roughly five months before the '687 application was filed (2019-09-24), consistent with a family-wide pre-filing assignment document carried forward from the parent. (Per the IPR2024-01305 institution decision, the effective filing date of the challenged claims is 2017-08-07, with an earlier 2016-08-05 priority — which refines, and does not contradict, the previously generated summary's "priority 2016-08-05." The 2037-08-07 anticipated expiration corroborates the 2017-08-07 §120 non-provisional.)

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Original assignee

• Entity as filed / on the issued patent: SportsCastr.LIVE, New York, NY (truncated on the grant face as "(73) Assignee: …"; Google Patents lists the original assignee as Sportscastrlive).
• Line of business: a live-streaming + social platform for live-event commentary — the specification is a description of this product (client app 5000, downloadable from app store 75, roughly 60–70 MB, rendering studio-quality overlay graphics over a broadcaster's live stream). This is not a paper design; the asserted architecture (separate video channel / event-socket channel) is the platform's actual architecture.
• Did they ship a product embodying the claims? Yes, on the record available: the patent's own specification describes the deployed client-app/network-platform architecture, and the company's operating status is corroborated by (i) continued maintenance of the patent (Google Patents legal status Active; Unified Patents lists $11,000 lifetime renewal fees for the property) and (ii) its role as plaintiff in the Oct. 5, 2023 E.D. Tex. suits. I could not verify whether the SportsCastr-branded consumer app is still distributed today.
• Current status: Operating, not dissolved, not in bankruptcy (no bankruptcy or insolvency record surfaced). The corporate chain shows three successive forms of the same business:
  • SportsCastr.LIVE → SportsCastr.LIVE LLC (2020 recordations) → SPORTSCASTR, INC. (recorded 2021-10-14).
  • The entity now litigates as "SportsCastr Inc. d/b/a PANDA Interactive." *
• *Diligence gap, flagged not asserted: the name "PANDA Interactive" appears nowhere in any assignment record I retrieved — it appears only as a litigation d/b/a. If a transfer to a separate Panda entity occurred (asset sale, contribution, or assignment to a licensing vehicle), it is unrecorded in what I could reach, which would itself be a title-cloud finding. This must be checked against Assignment Center and the E.D. Tex. § 3.7 disclosures.

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Assignment timeline

Mapping warning — material contradiction in my sources. The '687's own legal-events entry states the corrective assignment of 2020-10-07 corrected the assignee name "previously recorded on REEL 050822 FRAME 0832." A sibling-property legal-events snippet (US 10,425,697) states the corrective assignment was recorded at REEL 053969/0429 and corrected "REEL: 049017 FRAME: 0502." These are two different base reel/frame citations for the same asserted correction. I report both and do not reconcile them. Verify at the source.

1. Executed 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-02 / recorded 2019-10-25 — Reel 049017/0502

• Conveyance: Assignment of assignor's interest (initial inventor→company)
• Assignor: SILSTON, BRIAN; SCHUPAK, PHILIP NICHOLAS; APRIL, KEVIN; AND OTHERS (the record's own catch-all; Azuolas is the fourth)
• Assignee: SPORTSCASTR.LIVE, New York, NY
• Correspondent: not retrieved (field unavailable in all sources reached)
• Context: Pre-filing founder/employee assignment to the operating applicant; recorded one month after the '687 continuation was filed — ordinary, not a transfer.

2. Executed 2019-04-01/02 (same signing dates on record) / recorded 2020-10-02 — Reel 050822/0832 (candidate mapping — see warning)

• Conveyance: Assignment
• Assignor: the same four inventors
• Assignee: SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC, New York, NY
• Correspondent: not retrieved
• Context: Internal entity-form conversion (LIVE → LIVE LLC); papered as a fresh inventor assignment, which is common when the operating entity's legal name changes.

3. Executed date not retrieved / recorded 2020-10-07 — Reel 053969/0429 (candidate mapping; the '687 page instead points to reel 050822/0832 as the corrected record)

• Conveyance: Corrective Assignment ("correct the assignee name previously recorded… assignor(s) hereby confirms the assignment")
• Assignor/Assignee side: SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC remains assignee of record
• Correspondent: not retrieved
• Context: Change of name/entity-form correction only — adds no new party and transfers no new interest. This record is the reason we know the chain is fully papered at the PTO.

4. Executed date not retrieved / recorded 2021-10-14 — Reel not retrieved (the sibling-page snippet truncates at "ASSIGNOR:SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC;REEL/FRAME:")

• Conveyance: Assignment
• Assignor: SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC
• Assignee: SPORTSCASTR, INC.
• Correspondent: not retrieved
• Context: Internal reorganization (LLC → corporation). Same business, same beneficial owner; not a sale to a third party.

Terminal note: these four recorded events are the entire chain I could identify. There is no recorded security agreement, license, release, merger, or acquisition by a third party, and no record after 2021-10-14 — despite the Oct. 5, 2023 suits and the 2024–2026 IPR campaign. The absence of post-2021 recordings is consistent with SportsCastr, Inc. still being the owner of record, which matches the PTAB's real-party-in-interest identification of "SportsCastr Inc. d/b/a PANDA Interactive."

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Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10805687
    2016 : Earliest priority date
    2017 : Parent application filed
    2019 : Continuation filed Sept 24
         : Inventors assign to SportsCastr LIVE
         : Assignment recorded Oct 25
    2020 : Patent issues Oct 13
         : Assignee name corrected to SportsCastr LIVE LLC
    2021 : Assigned to SPORTSCASTR INC
    2023 : First infringement suits filed Oct 5
    2026 : Challenged claims held unpatentable

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NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — NOT PRESENT.
Every recorded assignee is a name variant of the same New York operating company, not a licensing vehicle: SportsCastr.LIVE → SportsCastr.LIVE LLC (reel 050822/0832, 2020-10-02) → SPORTSCASTR, INC. (2021-10-14). No "IP / Holdings / Ventures / Licensing" suffix appears; the assignee addresses of record are New York, NY (not a registered-agent service address); no single-purpose Delaware/Texas LLC appears in the chain. The record's own characterization — a corrective assignment to fix the assignee name — is the opposite of anonymization.

2. Known asserter in the chain — NOT PRESENT for the chain; UNCLEAR as to third-party classification.
No entity on the enumerated lists (Acacia, Marathon, IV, IPNav, Wi-LAN, Mosaid/Conversant, Vringo, Pendrell, Innovatio, MPHJ, Lumen View, Round Rock, DGC, Spangenberg vehicles) appears in any reel/frame record retrieved. Separately, the previously generated section notes that a Stanford NPE Litigation Database entry exists for the Genius Sports case — a third-party classification of the assertion campaign, not of the ownership chain. I would not treat a database classification as a chain finding, and no Unified Patents/RPX high-frequency-plaintiff listing for SportsCastr surfaced in my retrieval.

3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — UNCLEAR / NOT DETERMINABLE.
This is the single largest gap in this report. The correspondent (recording attorney/agent) field was not exposed in any source I could reach, so I cannot test the "the LLCs change, the lawyer doesn't" heuristic at all. This must be captured manually from the Assignment Center detail pages for reels 049017/0502, 050822/0832, 053969/0429, and the 2021-10-14 record.

4. Cascading transfers — NOT PRESENT.
Three recordings inside ~24 months (2019-10-25, 2020-10-02, 2020-10-07, 2021-10-14) would ordinarily trip this signal, but each hop is a same-name, same-city, same-business conversion; the assignees are not unrelated LLCs and share no mystery correspondents address. Sequencing is corporate housekeeping, not layering.

5. Pre-litigation transfer — NOT PRESENT.
Last recorded transfer: 2021-10-14. First suit naming the patent: 2023-10-05 (E.D. Tex. 2:23-cv-00471 and -00472) — approximately 24 months, far outside the 6-month window. Nothing in the chain was arranged to enable assertion.

6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — NOT PRESENT.
No Chapter 7/11 proceeding, receiver, or portfolio-sale record surfaced for SportsCastr.LIVE, SportsCastr.LIVE LLC, or SportsCastr, Inc. The patent remains in force per Google Patents (Active; anticipated expiration 2037-08-07), which is inconsistent with a distressed abandonment scenario.

7. Privateering — NOT PRESENT (no intermediary).
There is no operating-company → NPE transfer here: the asserter is the operating entity. To be even-handed, the market facts resemble privateering (a small platform company suing much larger sports-data competitors), and the absence of any SEC 10-K/8-K disclosure trail (both assignees appear to be private) means there is no public disclosure check available either way. But the defining element — an NPE middleman asserting on the operating company's behalf — is absent from every reel.

8. Defensive aggregator — NOT PRESENT.
No RPX, AST, LOT Network, Unified Patents, or OIN record exists in this chain. Important clarification for anyone reading the Google Patents page: the repeated line "Petitioner: 'Unified Patents PTAB Data' by Unified Patents is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" is a data-license attribution for the litigation database, not a party or assignee. The actual petitioners were Genius Sports Ltd. (IPR2024-01305/-01307) and Sportradar AG et al. (IPR2025-00268/-00269/-00315/-00316). Do not read the Google page as evidence of a defensive-aggregation interest in this patent.

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Verdict

Operating-company assertion.

The chain is a clean, three-step corporate housekeeping sequence owned end-to-end by the company that commercialized the invention and filed suit: all four inventors assigned to SportsCastr.LIVE by instrument signed 2019-04-01/02 and recorded 2019-10-25 at reel 049017/0502; the same business converted to SportsCastr.LIVE LLC (2020-10-02, reel 050822/0832, confirmed by the corrective assignment recorded 2020-10-07) and then to SPORTSCASTR, INC. (2021-10-14). No shell, no known NPE entity, no defensive aggregator, and no pre-litigation transfer (the last recording predates the 2023-10-05 E.D. Tex. complaints by ~24 months) appears in any record, so the "NPE" labels do not attach on the assignment evidence.

Two qualifications that could change this verdict and should be run down:

1. "PANDA Interactive" appears only in litigation, never in an assignment record. If SportsCastr, Inc. contributed the family to a separate Panda entity, that transfer is unrecorded in what I could reach.
2. The asset's residual value, not its ownership, is now the live issue. The previously generated section flagged claims 1–9 as held unpatentable in IPR2024-01305. My retrieval adds a directly contrary-to-earlier-assumption data point: the IPR2024-01307 Final Written Decision dated 2026-03-11 (Board, Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc.) holds that claims 19–25 and 27–30 are unpatentable as obvious over Ellis in view of Spivey — i.e., the second half of the claim set, which the earlier sections had associated with Sportradar's non-instituted IPR2025-00269. Between the two FWDs, essentially the entire asserted claim set has adverse Board findings, now on appeal at the Federal Circuit (Nos. 26-1809 / 26-1810). Ownership is intact; enforceability of the claims is not.

Verify at the source (Assignment Center): https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ — search by patent number 10805687 (mirror: https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html). Retrieve, in particular, the correspondent field for reels 049017/0502, 050822/0832, 053969/0429, and the 2021-10-14 record, and confirm the 2020-10-07 corrective assignment's "previously recorded" citation.

Primary sources used: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10805687/en (Google Patents Legal Events; corrective-assignment reel citation 050822/0832); https://patents.google.com/patent/US10425697 (sibling-property Legal Events snippet: reel 049017/0502, signing dates 2019-04-01/02, corrective reel 053969/0429, truncated "ASSIGNOR:SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC;REEL/FRAME:"); https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-10805687-B2 (assignee/renewal data); IPR2024-01305 Institution Decision (Patent 10,805,687 B2, effective filing date 2017-08-07; RPI = SportsCastr Inc.); IPR2024-01307 Final Written Decision dated 2026-03-11 (claims 19–25, 27–30 unpatentable over Ellis + Spivey); https://ipverse.greyb.com/ptab-web/cases/case-details/IPR2025-00269 (Sportradar discretionary denial).

I'll research the prior art cited against US 10,805,687, starting with the patent's own citation record and the prior art relied on in the IPRs.

Good — I've found the core IPR art. Now let me pin down the patent's own front-page citation record and the art cited during prosecution.

Prior-Art Analysis — US 10,805,687 B2

Identity check first. The search returned exactly one match for the literal string "10805687": US 10,805,687 B2, "Systems, apparatus, and methods for scalable low-latency viewing of broadcast digital content streams of live events, and synchronization of event information with viewed streams, via multiple internet channels," assignee SportsCastr.LIVE, application 16/580,552, published 2020-10-13. No similar-numbered patent was substituted. ✅

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⚠️ Two scope caveats before the analysis (please read)

1. I could not retrieve the '687's front-page "References Cited" list. My searches for the patent's own U.S. Patent Documents citation table returned empty or non-substantive results, and I exhausted my search budget on the relevant art. I therefore cannot enumerate "each patent citation" that appears on the face of the '687 and I will not fabricate entries. What follows is the prior art that is actually operative against this patent — the reference set pleaded by petitioners and applied by the Board — plus the references that appear in the family's prosecution/PCT record. If you need the literal front-page citation list, it must be pulled from the patent PDF or Patent Center, and I'd flag that the '687 was allowed without any §102/§103 rejection (Examiner's notice of allowance 2020-06-17, conclusory reasons-for-allowance), so the front-page citation list is likely thin and examination-derived.

2. Date inconsistency (flagged per your rules). Your task message says the current date is April 26, 2026; the system header says 2026-09-16. Also, one docket item in the previously generated sections (the CAFC appeal 26-1809, filed 05/11/2026) postdates both. The two dates cannot both be right; I've treated the 2026 records as live and noted where they matter.

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A. The three references that actually decide this patent

These three are the references the Board instituted on in IPR2024-01305 (Ellis–Spivey; Ellis–Spivey–Herzog; Herzog–Spivey–Ellis) and that the parties litigated through a hearing (2025-12-18) to a Final Written Decision.

Ellis — what it discloses. Enhanced sports-related media content access and display. FIG. 1 contains a content source, a supplemental content source (SCS), data sources, user equipment, and a "sports watcher application." Video is delivered over communication path 150; the SCS delivers real-time sports information over a separate communication path 152. Critically for the '687: "in some embodiments, this sports-related information is provided to user equipment 102 as a plurality of real-time data feeds" where each "data feed may be individually accessed or subscribed to" (¶41), and the SCS provides "real-time sports scores and game summary information ... to user equipment 102" (¶41). Ellis also discloses user feedback/commentary (¶¶126, 132). Ellis is stated by the parties to be a continuation of US 2008/0062318 A1 ("Ellis-318"), which was cited in the family's PCT Search Report.

Spivey — what it discloses. A low-latency live-data distribution system: live data sources → message queue server (MQS) with topic queues (e.g., gamecenter.nfl.ravenssteelers.stats) → live data access server (LDAS) → client devices via websocket. FIG. 4 shows the MQS implemented as a message queue server device (MQSD) 410 plus a live data server device (LDSD) 450; ¶58 states RABBITMQ™ "facilitates topic queues that receive published messages and push the messages to clients that have subscribed to the topic queues." This is the reference the Board found sufficient to teach the claimed "event socket" in IPR2024-01305 — the single most load-bearing finding against claim 1.

Herzog — what it discloses. Streaming live video/audio of a sporting event (an Indianapolis car race, four camera feeds 48a–48d) plus telemetry metadata over different communication paths, with VITC time-stamp headers, MPEG/HLS publishing, an ERP generator server, an ERP (Enhanced Result Protocol) server, an origin server, and a CDN 47. Herzog is the reference that supplies the "separate communication path ... a unique video and metadata source that do not follow the same path of transmission." Note the asymmetry the Patent Owner exploited and lost on: Herzog's audio/video latency runs "up to 63 seconds," and PO argued Herzog treats latency as a feature required for its timestamp-synchronization scheme, so a POSITA would not shrink it.

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B. §102 anticipation: direct answer per reference

This is the question you asked, and the honest answer is uncomfortable for a §102 framing:

No single one of these three references anticipates any independent claim of the '687. Every ground pleaded and instituted is §103 obviousness — Ground 1A (Ellis–Spivey), Ground 1B (Ellis–Spivey–Herzog), Ground 2 (Herzog–Spivey–Ellis). I found no §102 anticipation ground in any petition against the '687. Here is the reference-by-reference §102 exposure:

Bottom line on §102: the '687's vulnerability is §103 combinations, not anticipation. The channel-separation idea standing alone (Ellis) is the weakest part of the claim set; the "one-to-many event socket" element is where Patent Owner fought, and the Board's institution decision and the reported FWD both went against it on Spivey's topic queues.

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C. References named in the family's record that I could NOT fully cite

I am listing these so they aren't lost, but I do not have verified full citations and will not invent them:

• Shoff, DeWeese, Bocharov — the art considered during examination / in the PCT Search Report. Genius Sports' reply in the sibling IPR2024-01310 argues at length that "Ellis, Herzog, and Spivey Are Not Substantively the Same as Shoff, DeWeese, and Bocharov," and the institution decision in the '218 proceeding found Bocharov not cumulative because the Search Report "explicitly notes that Bocharov is not relied on for 'event socket,' 'socket server,' 'event identifier.'" These are the prosecution-stage references for the family (Bocharov appears in the PCT Search Report). Full citations unverified.
• Kellicker, Phillips, Stoica, Pantos — named as additional references for dependent claims in a family petition (PTAB Petition ID 1557103) across nine '687 grounds and nine '697 grounds (e.g., "'697 Ground 5 ... Ellis in View of Spivey, Kellicker, Phillips, and Pantos"). Full citations unverified — I did not reach them before exhausting my search budget.
• "Mitic" (Exhibit 1018, listed as "U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2015/0163379") — Sportradar's exhibit list literally shows the same publication number as Herzog (Exhibit 1015) under a different label. Per your no-auto-correction rule, I am not correcting this; I flag it as either a scrivener's error in the exhibit list, a family-member publication sharing an apparent number in the OCR'd source, or a second reference I could not resolve.

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D. The art that has actually prevailed, and what it means

Per the previously generated sections (based on the 2026-03-05 Bloomberg Law report), the Board held the challenged claims unpatentable as obvious in IPR2024-01305, the proceeding terminated 2026-03-11, and SportsCastr appealed (CAFC 26-1809, filed 05/11/2026). So the operative answer to "most relevant prior art for US 10,805,687" is:

1. Ellis (US 2014/0229992) in view of Spivey (US 2016/0036910) — grounds 1A; the combination that supplies both channels and the "event socket."
2. Herzog (US 2015/0163379) in view of Spivey and Ellis — ground 2; supplies separate-path synchronization and the multi-event expansion.
3. Ellis + Spivey + Herzog — ground 1B.

⚠️ Do not over-read this. Claims 19–30 were challenged by Sportradar in IPR2025-00269 and were not instituted; claims 1–9 were the IPR2024-01305 target. A loss on claims 1–9 does not dispose of the back half of the claim set, which is exactly why Google Patents still lists the patent's legal status as Active. The claim-by-claim exposure is: claims 1–9 → decided against PO (on appeal); claims 19–30 → never instituted.

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E. Self-critique / confidence

• High confidence: the identities and bibliographic data of Ellis ('992), Spivey ('910), and Herzog ('379), their filing/publication dates as pleaded, their substantive disclosures (quoted from the petition and institution-decision text), and the fact that all '687 grounds are §103, none §102.
• Moderate confidence: Herzog's exact filing day and publication date (truncated in my source); the allocation of Kellicker/Phillips/Stoica/Pantos to specific '687 dependent claims; and whether PTAB Petition ID 1557103 corresponds to IPR2024-01307 or to a multi-patent petition (its table of contents lists nine grounds each for the '697 and the '687, which is anomalous for a single-patent IPR).
• Explicitly not verified: the '687's own front-page "References Cited" table. This is the one thing your task asked for that I could not deliver, and you should treat Section A as "the prior art that is operative against the '687" rather than "the citations printed on the '687." To close that gap you'd need the patent PDF/Patent Center "References Cited," USPC/CPC cross-art citations, and the IDS from application 16/580,552.

I'll ground this analysis in the actual prior-art record for this patent — the references the PTAB petitioners relied on, plus other art in the field. Let me pull the primary sources.

Obviousness Analysis — U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687 B2 under 35 U.S.C. § 103

Analyst note on sources. Your message references "the results from the Prior Art section of this page," but no dedicated Prior Art section was included in the material supplied to me. I have therefore reconstructed the prior-art corpus from (a) the "Prior art keywords" field on the Google Patents record (event; server; viewer client; client device; hls) and (b) the references actually asserted against this patent in the IPR record, which is the operative §103 record. Where I rely on those references I cite the exhibit numbers and URLs. I do not repeat the bibliographic or claim-structure content already set out in the prior sections; this builds on it.

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1. The §103 framework and the four Graham factors

The Board's own statement of law in the IPR2024-01307 Final Written Decision is the correct frame:

"A patent claim is unpatentable as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art" — KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 406 (2007), with the Graham v. John Deere factual underpinnings: (1) scope and content of the prior art; (2) differences; (3) level of ordinary skill; (4) objective evidence of nonobviousness.
— IPR2024-01307, Paper 45 (FWD, Mar. 11, 2026), §II.B

Level of ordinary skill (POSA). The Board adopted Patent Owner's formulation over Petitioner's: a bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS or equivalent plus approximately two years of work experience with Internet video streaming, Internet communication, and related protocols — and expressly noted it would reach the same result under Petitioner's alternative formulation ("at least a bachelor's degree … and one to two years of experience in networking environments, including at least some experience with live-streaming network architecture"). This is a mid-level POSA, not a specialist, which widens the field of analogous art and makes the combinations easier to sustain. (IPR2024-01307 FWD §II.C.)

Effective filing date — flagging a discrepancy. The Board fixed "the effective filing date of the challenged claims, which is August 7, 2017" (IPR2024-01305 Institution Decision). The Google Patents record separately lists a prior art date of August 5, 2016 and an anticipated expiration of 2037-08-07. These two dates are inconsistent as stated. I do not resolve them here. The discrepancy is immaterial to Ellis, Spivey, and Herzog (all published in 2014–2016, before either date), but it is material to any post-2017 art, discussed in §7 below.

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2. The prior-art corpus

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3. The technical elements that must be mapped

Building on the earlier claim reconstruction (independents 1, 19, 23, 27; claims 1–9 and 19–25, 27–30 challenged), the §103 case reduces to five discrete technical questions:

1. Two separate Internet channels — video on one, event data on another.
2. A "control server" that periodically retrieves event information over the Internet from an event information provider, including score information.
3. A "socket server" that receives the data from the control server and pushes it.
4. An "event socket" that corresponds to the event — the Board construed this as a "uniquely addressable communication endpoint" — with the data transmitted to the viewer device over an "event information Internet communication channel" between that socket and the device.
5. Multiple broadcasters / multiple events (claims 19–25 in particular) and chat/system-event separation per stream.

Elements 1 and 2 are the easy ones. Element 4 — the "event socket" — was the entire battleground.

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4. Ground 1: Ellis in view of Spivey

4.1 Element-by-element mapping

4.2 Motivation to combine

The record contains four independent, overlapping KSR-recognized rationales, any one of which suffices:

1. Same field of endeavor and same problem. Both references are directed to "content delivery for real-time events" and both "solve the same or similar problems, namely, quickly providing video and/or event data to multiple users over the Internet." (Petition at 20; IPR2024-01305 ID.) This is KSR's "same field of endeavor" and "similar problem" rationale.
2. The secondary reference itself identifies the deficiency in the primary reference. Spivey expressly teaches that live-event data delivery systems "suffer from latency issues" and offers topic queues + open duplex connections to push data to any number of customers "in milliseconds." A POSA reading Ellis — which uses a generic HTTP-based SCS to deliver scores — is not merely permitted but taught to substitute the lower-latency mechanism. This defeats any "no motivation" argument under In re Kahn / KSR.
3. Substitution of known elements to obtain predictable results. "Implementing certain portions of Spivey's system into Ellis's system … would have required only the simple substitution of known elements for another to obtain predictable results." (KSR, 550 U.S. at 416.) Element-for-element: Ellis's SCS 120 → Spivey's LDSD 450; add MQSD 410; HTTPS in the data path → websocket. The video path (content source 130 → path 150) is left entirely intact, so the substitution is surgical.
4. Compatibility is disclosed by the primary reference itself. Ellis ¶47: content source 130, SCS 120, and data sources 140 "are shown in FIG. 1 as separate elements" but "[i]n practice, their functionality may be combined into a single mechanism … or their functionality may be provided by multiple systems at multiple facilities." Ellis thus pre-authorizes re-partitioning its own backend — the exact modification Petitioner proposed.

Reasonable expectation of success follows from the same facts: both systems operate over the Internet to deliver live event data; Spivey's components are described functionally and architecturally; and the combination only upgrades the data path while preserving the video path. Nothing in Ellis conditions operability on the SCS being an HTTP server.

4.3 Patent Owner's counterarguments and why they failed

Patent Owner (PANDA) advanced three arguments, all rejected:

• Inoperability — "no server component relays data to Ellis's user equipment." The Board's framing of the dispute was "whether Petitioner's proposed combination of Ellis and Spivey would be inoperable due to omission of a server component that functions to relay data to Ellis's user equipment," and it "conclude[d] they do not negate Petitioner's combination." (IPR2024-01305 FWD §II.D.) The flaw in PANDA's position is that it treated the combination as requiring bodily incorporation of Spivey's entire architecture — including its LDAS as a mandatory element. As Petitioner correctly argued, "[t]he test for obviousness is not whether the features of a secondary reference may be bodily incorporated into the structure of the primary reference… Rather, the test is what the combined teachings of those references would have suggested." (In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425 (CCPA 1981).) Tellingly, Spivey's own claim 7 recites a connection between the MQSD and a client device without an LDAS.
• "Topic queues ≠ event socket." PANDA argued the topic queues "lack an address through which they can communicate." The Board found against it, relying on Spivey's disclosure that an address "may resemble a uniform resource locator (URL)" and that UI 900 "allow[s] an operator 108 of a client device to view and select … topics available from a message queue server." Under the Board's construction of "event socket" as a uniquely addressable communication endpoint, a URL-addressable, client-selectable topic queue subscribed to over a websocket is the claimed event socket. This is the single most consequential finding in the case.
• "Petitioner manufactured a latency problem in Ellis." Rejected — Spivey itself supplies the latency diagnosis, and the '687 specification's own stated motivation (10-second viewer latency in prior platforms) is the identical problem.

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5. Ground 2 (alternative): Herzog in view of Spivey and Ellis

This ground is stronger than Ground 1 on the "synchronization" aspects and exists because Herzog's express purpose is the very synchronization problem the '687's specification identifies as the reason low-latency matters for a second-screen experience.

5.1 Mapping

5.2 Motivation to combine

1. Herzog → Spivey: protocol substitution to cure a known latency source. Herzog delivers metadata by HTTP polling. Websockets were a well-known, standardized, technically superior alternative for server-push in real-time applications (lower per-message overhead, full-duplex, no polling interval). Replacing polling with a push channel is the paradigm case of "a known technique … used to improve similar devices in the same way" (KSR). The '687 specification itself treats latency synchronization as the problem to be solved, which is exactly what this substitution addresses.
2. Herzog+Spivey → Ellis: expansion to multiple events. Herzog already streams multiple feeds and multiple data streams; adding support for multiple distinct events is a straightforward extension to increase the platform's content offerings and commercial appeal — a design incentive recognized in KSR ("a designer… may be motivated to improve" and "the desire to enhance commercial opportunities").
3. Expectation of success is high because Spivey's MQSD is architecturally agnostic to the video delivery mechanism; Herzog's HLS video path is untouched.

5.3 Patent Owner's counterargument

PANDA argued the "Herzog/Spivey combination would not result in reduced latency and would not be attempted." That argument requires the POSA to disbelieve Spivey's own teaching (millisecond-scale delivery to any number of customers) and Herzog's own identification of the multi-rate synchronization problem — an untenable position on the record. The Board rejected it.

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6. Ground 3: Ellis + Spivey + Herzog (dependent claims)

Adding Herzog to the Ellis/Spivey combination (Ground 1B in IPR2024-01305, used for claims 2–7) supplies two dependent-claim subjects: (i) multiple video streams derived from the same event (Herzog's multiple camera angles) — relevant to dependent claims contemplating same-event, multiple-broadcaster configurations — and (ii) the time-synchronization mechanics. This is a "mere addition of more content" / known-feature rationale: if you already have a multi-stream system, selecting among multiple feeds of one event is a conventional extension.

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7. Claims not squarely addressed by the record — and a critical prior-art date caveat

Two groups of claims deserve explicit treatment:

(a) Claims 10–18 and claim 26 were not challenged in either instituted IPR. IPR2024-01305 challenged claims 1–9; IPR2024-01307 challenged claims 19–25 and 27–30. On the record I have, claims 10–18 and 26 were not cancelled by either Final Written Decision. However — if claims 10–18 depend from claim 1 and claim 1 has been held unpatentable and cancelled, those dependent claims survive as textually unadjudicated but are dependent on a cancelled claim, which is a practical (though not per se legal) extinguishment. I do not have the text of claims 10–18 or 26, so I can state only the following reasoned projection rather than a holding: to the extent those claims add only (i) HLS/ABR delivery, (ii) RTMP/WebRTC media-server selection, (iii) mother/child HLS caching architecture, or (iv) conventional scaling/queueing features, the same combination plus the Kellicker/Phillips-type art already deployed against the sibling patents would likely render them obvious. Treat that as a projection, flagged as such.

(b) Abulikemu (US 2018/0367820 A1) is probably not available as prior art against the '687. It published December 20, 2018. Against an effective filing date of August 7, 2017 (the Board's stated date), it cannot be §102(a)(1) art, and unless its own effective filing date predates the '687's — which I could not verify — it cannot be §102(a)(2) art either. Its appearance in the record is confined to the sibling patent petitions (e.g., US 11,871,088), which may have later effective filing dates. Do not import Abulikemu into a '687 §103 ground without first verifying its effective filing date. I flag this as the single most likely trap in reusing the petitioner's briefing across the family.

(c) Kellicker and Phillips. I saw these references mapped to "HLS caching server architecture comprising an HLS mother server … a plurality of HLS child servers … and an HLS content delivery network," but the mappings I retrieved were labelled "Element 26.3," "Element 26.4-26.5," "claim element 10.3" — numbering that does not match the '687's claim set as reconstructed. Those appear to belong to a sibling patent. I could not retrieve their full citations within the search budget and will not assert their numbers or their applicability to the '687's dependent claims.

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8. Objective evidence of nonobviousness

Patent Owner's Response in IPR2024-01305 devoted an entire section — "V. OBJECTIVE INDICIA SHOW THAT THE CLAIMS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS" — to secondary considerations, and the IPR2024-01305 FWD states it considered "Patent Owner's and Petitioner's alleged objective evidence of nonobviousness."

Two observations:

1. The Board nonetheless held all challenged claims unpatentable. So whatever indicia were asserted either lacked a sufficient nexus to the challenged claims, or were outweighed. I could not retrieve the Board's specific findings on each indicium within my search budget, so I will not characterize how each was disposed of — only that the objective-evidence showing did not carry the day.
2. The most plausible weak point is nexus. The '687's own commercial story (low-latency second-screen sports commentary with studio-quality client-side graphics, small app footprint) is arguably attributable to features that the claims do not recite — e.g., the client-side rendering of graphics, the 60–70 MB app size, the chat/gifting social layer, and the CDN auto-scaling — rather than to the claimed two-channel + event-socket architecture. Strong nonobviousness arguments in this family would have to tie the commercial success or industry praise specifically to the socket-based synchronized event-data channel.

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9. Bottom-line §103 conclusions

The single most important takeaway for §103 purposes: the '687's asserted point of novelty — the "event socket" as a per-event, uniquely addressable fan-out point for synchronized sports data on a channel separate from video — was defeated by a 2016 message-queue publication (Spivey) whose topic queues are URL-addressable and subscribed to over websockets. Ellis supplies the two-channel video/data architecture and the multi-event/multi-viewer framework; Spivey supplies the low-latency socket layer and the motivation (Spivey itself names the latency problem); Herzog supplies the express time-synchronization teaching and the alternative primary reference. Each combination rests on at least two independent KSR rationales and a documented reasonable expectation of success.

Procedural posture caveat: both Final Written Decisions are dated March 11, 2026, and Patent Owner has filed notices of appeal (Federal Circuit Nos. 26-1809 and 26-1810; the docket aggregator shows "Final Written Decision – Appealed"). A separate discrepancy already flagged in the prior sections — Google Patents continues to report the '687's legal status as "Active" with an anticipated expiration of 2037-08-07 — is consistent with the fact that only the challenged claims were cancelled and the record has not yet been updated, but it is worth confirming against the USPTO's own file before relying on either source. I could not independently verify the appellate briefing or the assignment of judges.

Items I could not verify and therefore do not assert: the exact per-claim disposition in the IPR2024-01307 FWD (the full text did not load; the "Unpatentable" outcome comes from the FWD header/aggregator); the Board's specific treatment of each objective indicium; the full citations for Kellicker and Phillips; and the text of claims 10–18 and 26.