Smith Micro Software Seeks Europe Patent Aid

Smith Micro Software Inc., an Aliso Viejo maker of electronic commerce and communication software products, said Tuesday that it is seeking foreign patent protection for its motion-detection software.

The company said in a press release that it filed a Demand for Preliminary Examination with the European Patent Office. The filing relates to techniques, algorithms and software developed by Smith Micro for motion-triggered alarms.

The patent application covers a video processing module running on a computer system that employs algorithms to detect and quantify movement, either locally or remotely over the Internet, and executes tasks based upon the algorithm output, including alarms that can be sent over the Internet.

Smith Micro initially filed the patent application with the U.S. Patent Office in November 1998.