The author, Tage Skotvold’s background Music and Technology:
I started playing the trombone at the age of 6, went on to play classical guitar at 11, then started to play the electric guitar at my local youth club and music school. I then played in several bands, and at 17 I started College studying Music. Then my interest shifted more towards jazz, but I still maintained my interest in punk, rock and more metal related genres. After college I went on to study philosophy, musicology, contemporary composition. Whilst studying I had 2 radioshows about contemporary music. I have since completed a Bachelors Degree in Creative Music Technology, and I am currently studying a Research MA in Music Technology. My hope after this is to start a Ph.D. in Music Technology or a related field.
This blog is about my research and stuff I find in my daily work. I hope you’ll enjoy the blog!
Dear Tage,
Because of your work in the field of gesture-based communication, I am writing you today to request your participation in Peer-to-Patent. Peer-to-Patent is an historic reform initiative launched by New York Law School in cooperation with the USPTO. The program allows for the public review of published patent applications pending in USPTO Technology Center 2100, covering computer architecture, software, and information security, as well as those in Technology Center 3600 Class 705, patent applications for e-commerce and business methods.
Peer-to-Patent reviewers read and discuss the application and its claims, submit research or prior art relevant to the claimed invention, and rate and annotate prior art submitted by other reviewers. The top 10 prior art references, as selected by the community, are then forwarded to the USPTO for use by the patent examiner in the examination process.
After reviewing your Blog, I believe that your unique knowledge would provide significant benefit to the patent examination process. I am writing to let you know that one of the applications currently available for public review on Peer-to-Patent, Gesture-based communications [http://www.communitypatent.org/patent/20080104547/activity] covers subject matter that you might interested in.
Application workflows can be improved using gesture recognition. Interpreting non-functional attributes of gestures, such as relative sizes and/or positions and/or locations, can indicate relative degrees of functionality of the gesture. Thus, gesture inputs trigger proportionate functionality at an application, whereby the gesture input can include a gesture component and at least one of a size component and/or a position component modifying the gesture component.
I invite you to visit http://www.peertopatent.org and encourage you to sign up to be a reviewer so that you can share your knowledge and expertise on this topic with others in the community.
Thanks.