Sorry to repost, it's been pointed out to me that the original headline was poorly phrased.
So, here's the situation: there's an idea, it's already been publicly disclosed by me several times in email and other mediums, so there's no possibility of a direct patent. That's the way I want it - I'm a humanitarian working in the refugee field.
However, there's a spin off concept which I have a client for. They're quite interested and figuring out internal funding issues. If that comes off, there would be a relatively fat contract to deliver a working system based on 2D bar codes, camera phone programming and some basic cryptography to ensure the data on the bar codes isn't stale or damaged. The limiting step is how much data can be printed on a US Letter piece of paper and successfully extracted by the camera on a camera phone. There are some windows for developing IP on doing things like deconvolution algorithms for out of focus shots and so on.
The deal would be that, if the client comes through, I'd act as an advisor to the team but, otherwise, simply walk away from the deal. I need the tools, I need the job done, but this is not my trade or how I make my living.
So, here's the situation: there's an idea, it's already been publicly disclosed by me several times in email and other mediums, so there's no possibility of a direct patent. That's the way I want it - I'm a humanitarian working in the refugee field.
However, there's a spin off concept which I have a client for. They're quite interested and figuring out internal funding issues. If that comes off, there would be a relatively fat contract to deliver a working system based on 2D bar codes, camera phone programming and some basic cryptography to ensure the data on the bar codes isn't stale or damaged. The limiting step is how much data can be printed on a US Letter piece of paper and successfully extracted by the camera on a camera phone. There are some windows for developing IP on doing things like deconvolution algorithms for out of focus shots and so on.
http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project
The deal would be that, if the client comes through, I'd act as an advisor to the team but, otherwise, simply walk away from the deal. I need the tools, I need the job done, but this is not my trade or how I make my living.
If you're interested, email me: [email protected]