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GBT Received Notice of Allowance for its Wireless Movement
The patent seeks to protect AI empowered, Radio-Based motion detection and imaging IP
SAN DIEGO, March 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GBT Technologies Inc. ( OTC PINK: GTCH ) (“GBT” or the “Company”), received notice of allowance for its wireless motion detection IP patent, which has been internally designated with a code name of “Apollo”. The non-provisional patent describes a radio based, real time motion detection method and system. GBT’s AI technology is the core of the IP, which is in prototype stage, and controls radio waves transmissions and performs reflections analysis. Neural network algorithms analyze the reflected/refracted information to construct 2D/3D images of stationary and in-motion objects. The IP’s described technology, if commercialization, could be implemented within major domains including health monitoring, security and autonomous vehicles computer vision. The patent’s technology describes radio transmissions within specific frequencies, measuring and analyzing the returned reflected waves information with the goal of constructing the object’s live imaging. The AI algorithms IP is designed to detect distinctive patterns, determining living entities and objects. One efficient application for this type of technology is to wirelessly image people’s movements and measuring their vitals. Another possible implementation is to detect people’s fall, and alert for irregular vitals. The IP also includes concepts that can be implemented in the security domain such as intruder prevention, concealed object detection and similar. The described technology works various environments including indoors and outdoors and through walls and other mediums. The described system’s range is designed to be extended to monitor larger areas and facilities using extenders. One of the major IP topics is a vehicle warning application to alert drivers about sleepiness or extreme emotional states.
“We were pleased to receive a notice of allowance for our Apollo, non-provisional patent application, as we truly believe that this type of technology can offer a breakthrough wireless solution in wide variety of domains. The patent seeks to protect the concept of…
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Apple Filed A Silly, Questionable DMCA Notice On A Tweeted iPhone Encryption Key… Before Backing Down
Copyright continues to serve its purpose as a tool for censorship, it seems. This week there was some hubbub over Apple’s highly questionable decision to send a DMCA takedown notice over a tweet by a security researcher who goes by “Siguza,” and who appeared to publish an iPhone encryption key on Twitter:
iPhone11,8 17C5053a sepi 9f974f1788e615700fec73006cc2e6b533b0c6c2b8cf653bdbd347bc1897bdd66b11815f036e94c951250c4dda916c00
— Siguza (@s1guza) December 8, 2019
Twitter took it down upon receipt of the takedown notice, but later put it back after Apple rescinded the takedown — either realizing that the takedown was bogus or futile (or, I guess, both).
You can understand (sorta) why Apple would want to protect the key, but copyright seems like exactly the wrong tool for the job. Of course, that’s often the case, but copyright is such an easy tool to abuse to try to silence speech that it is often the preferred tool of would-be censors. This is just one example. But it does raise questions. Is an encryption key even copyright-eligible? That seems highly unlikely. Copyright only is supposed to apply to the creative elements of a work, and it would be difficult to argue that an encryption key meets the “creative” level necessary. US courts have already decided that phone numbers are not subject to copyright (even made up numbers), so it seems unlikely that an encryption key would pass muster for getting a copyright.
Potentially Apple could have been making a DMCA 1201 “anti-circumvention” argument as well — but even that seems silly, and only highlights the problems of the anti-circumvention provisions of Section 1201 of the DMCA. When a single tweet with a single code is seen as “circumvention” then there’s a big problem — and that problem is the law.
It’s good that Apple backed down on this, though it still highlights the problems of the DMCA takedown process, and how it can be used unfairly for censorship — even if that “censorship” completely backfired this time.
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