Re: The patent trolling capital of the Eastern District of Texas
794 [https://patents.google.com/patent/US9426794B2/en?oq=9%2c426%2c794]
Dated April 20 2001, eventually.
Interestingly I believe I was already doing at least claims 1-3 in public on consumer hardware in 2001 - that is, tethering my Thinkpad to my Qualcomm candy bar via the serial port and using it as a wireless modem. I have some vague recollection that there was a virtual uplink, but maybe I was dialing the Mindspring backup line at 2400 or 9600 bps. It was slow but SSH is low data anyway, just doing note taking and admin stuff on my home computer. That would have been on Verizon; full circle I guess.
I don't have much to say about 931, I learned a decent amount about TDD at University in the late 90s but of course we didn't go into great detail about broadcasting a bit mask to advertise settings like the claims, maybe that's not obvious to practitioners in EDTX.