Devices and Sensors Working Group - IPR (original) (raw)

Licensing Commitments

Participants in this group have made certain licensing commitments by joining the group. In addition to these Participants, non-participating W3C Member may have made licensing commitments.

W3C Members not participating in this group who wish to make the same licensing commitments for specifications developed by this group may do so through a Join form for licensing commitments from non-participating Members.

Other parties making a substantive contribution to the work of the group need to make a Royalty-Free patent commitment, as described in section 6.2.6 of the Process. Team contacts will provide instructions for recording the non-participant licensing commitment before the contribution can be accepted.

Participation

W3C Member Organizations

• Daily, Co
• Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs Rabat (EMI)
• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
• Google LLC
• Intel Corporation
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Microsoft Corporation
• Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
• University of Illinois

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Invited Experts

• Lars Knudsen
• Maryam Mehrnezhad
• Lukasz Olejnik
• Christine Perey
• Ehsan Toreini
• Rick Waldron

Team members

• Atsushi Shimono

See also the list of individuals participating in this group.

The Call for Participation for this group was announced on 2024-02-21; see the Patent Policy FAQ for information about continued participation before re-joining the group.

Specifications published by the Group

The following is the list of specifications produced by theDevices and Sensors Working Group that have associated disclosures obligations, and possible licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy.

Documents under the W3C Patent Policy

Documents not/no longer under the W3C Patent Policy

Patent Disclosures and Claim Exclusions

This section summarizes patent disclosures by participants in W3C's Devices and Sensors Working Group as required by section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

W3C takes no position regarding either:

• the validity or scope of any intellectual property right or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology, or
• the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available from those not participating in this group.

Where disclosure is required by a W3C Member, the AC Representative makes the disclosure.

Anyone else may also make a disclosure.

Known Disclosures

No patent disclosures have been made for any specifications of this group.

How to Make a Patent Disclosure

W3C Members and Invited Experts (including those not participating in this group) wishing to disclose a patent for any specification produced by the Devices and Sensors Working Group should use the Devices and Sensors Working Group patent disclosure form.

Disclosures from the general public should be sent tothe W3C Staff.

For specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, parties that commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms are not required to disclose patents. Any party (not just the Working Group Participants) may commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms and may do so by following the instructions in the next section.

Claim Exclusions

Only Devices and Sensors Working Group participants may exclude patent claims concerning specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, per section 4 of the W3C Patent Policy. To make an exclusion, participants should use the Devices and Sensors Working Group patent claim exclusion form, but only after first disclosing the patent.

Exclusion Opportunities

The Patent Policy FAQ provides detailed information about_exclusion opportunities_, that is, when a Working Group Participant can exclude a patent claim.

Each exclusion opportunity has a duration. See section 4.1 of the W3C Patent Policy for information on how the exclusion deadline is calculated.

At each exclusion opportunity, Participants may exclude patent claims with respect to a body of text. TheExclusion Draft is the reference body of text for the current exclusion opportunity.

Note: At each new exclusion opportunity (e.g., in the case of a second Candidate Recommendation Snapshot), exclusions are only with respect to differences since the previous reference body of text. These differences may be less than an entire document, and the summary below does not address that granularity. Also, in some edge cases (discussed in the FAQ), Participants, depending on when they joined the Working Group, will have different Exclusion Drafts; the summary below does not reflect this case.

Exclusion Opportunities

No current exclusion opportunities.

Previous exclusion opportunitiesView previous exclusion opportunities

Compute Pressure Level 1

Call for exclusion started on 2022-12-20, opportunity until 2023-05-19

Contact Picker API

Call for exclusion started on 2022-12-20, opportunity until 2023-05-19

Geolocation API

Call for exclusion started on 2022-02-17, opportunity until 2022-04-18

Geolocation API

Call for exclusion started on 2021-05-27, opportunity until 2021-10-24

The Screen Fold API

Call for exclusion started on 2020-12-17, opportunity until 2021-05-16

Accelerometer

Call for exclusion started on 2019-12-12, opportunity until 2020-02-10

Gyroscope

Call for exclusion started on 2019-12-12, opportunity until 2020-02-10

Orientation Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2019-12-12, opportunity until 2020-02-10

Generic Sensor API

Call for exclusion started on 2019-12-12, opportunity until 2020-02-10

Geolocation Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2018-08-21, opportunity until 2019-01-18

Generic Sensor API

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Ambient Light Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Accelerometer

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Gyroscope

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Magnetometer

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Orientation Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2018-03-20, opportunity until 2018-05-19

Wake Lock API

Call for exclusion started on 2017-12-14, opportunity until 2018-02-12

HTML Media Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2017-08-31, opportunity until 2017-10-30

Orientation Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2017-05-11, opportunity until 2017-10-08

HTML Media Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2017-05-04, opportunity until 2017-07-03

Accelerometer Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2016-09-13, opportunity until 2017-02-10

Gyroscope Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2016-09-13, opportunity until 2017-02-10

Magnetometer Sensor

Call for exclusion started on 2016-09-13, opportunity until 2017-02-10

Battery Status API

Call for exclusion started on 2016-07-07, opportunity until 2016-09-05

Media Capture and Streams

Call for exclusion started on 2016-05-19, opportunity until 2016-07-18

Generic Sensor API

Call for exclusion started on 2015-10-15, opportunity until 2016-03-13

Media Capture from DOM Elements

Call for exclusion started on 2015-02-19, opportunity until 2015-07-19

Wake Lock API

Call for exclusion started on 2015-02-13, opportunity until 2015-07-13

Screen Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2015-02-10, opportunity until 2015-07-10

Audio Output Devices API

Call for exclusion started on 2015-02-10, opportunity until 2015-07-10

Media Capture and Streams

Call for exclusion started on 2015-04-14, opportunity until 2015-06-13

Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions

Call for exclusion started on 2014-10-08, opportunity until 2015-03-06

Battery Status API

Call for exclusion started on 2014-08-28, opportunity until 2014-10-27

HTML Media Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2014-06-19, opportunity until 2014-08-18

Vibration API

Call for exclusion started on 2014-06-19, opportunity until 2014-08-18

Ambient Light Events

Call for exclusion started on 2014-06-19, opportunity until 2014-08-18

Vibration API

Call for exclusion started on 2014-02-12, opportunity until 2014-04-13

Mediastream Image Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2013-07-09, opportunity until 2013-12-06

Vibration API

Call for exclusion started on 2013-05-23, opportunity until 2013-07-22

MediaStream Recording

Call for exclusion started on 2013-02-06, opportunity until 2013-07-06

HTML Media Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2013-03-26, opportunity until 2013-05-25

Web Intents Addendum - Local Services

Call for exclusion started on 2012-10-04, opportunity until 2013-03-03

Ambient Light Events

Call for exclusion started on 2012-12-13, opportunity until 2013-02-11

Proximity Events

Call for exclusion started on 2012-12-06, opportunity until 2013-02-04

Ambient Light Events

Call for exclusion started on 2012-08-02, opportunity until 2012-12-30

Pick Media Intent

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-12, opportunity until 2012-12-09

Proximity Events

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-12, opportunity until 2012-12-09

Media Capture and Streams

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-02, opportunity until 2012-11-29

Web Intents

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-02, opportunity until 2012-11-29

HTML Media Capture

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-12, opportunity until 2012-09-10

Contacts API

Call for exclusion started on 2012-07-02, opportunity until 2012-08-31

Battery Status API

Call for exclusion started on 2011-11-29, opportunity until 2012-01-28

The Network Information API

Call for exclusion started on 2011-06-07, opportunity until 2011-11-04

Calendar API

Call for exclusion started on 2011-04-19, opportunity until 2011-09-16

Contacts API

Call for exclusion started on 2011-06-16, opportunity until 2011-08-15

Permissions for Device API Access

Call for exclusion started on 2010-10-05, opportunity until 2011-03-04

The Media Capture API

Call for exclusion started on 2010-09-28, opportunity until 2011-02-25

The Messaging API

Call for exclusion started on 2010-08-10, opportunity until 2011-01-07

File API: Writer

Call for exclusion started on 2010-04-06, opportunity until 2010-09-03

The Capture API

Call for exclusion started on 2010-04-01, opportunity until 2010-08-29

The System Information API

Call for exclusion started on 2010-02-02, opportunity until 2010-07-02

The Contacts API

Call for exclusion started on 2010-01-21, opportunity until 2010-06-20

Additional Licensing Information

As described insection 5 of the W3C Patent Policy:

All Working Group participants are encouraged to provide a contact from which licensing information can be obtained and other relevant licensing information. Any such information will be made publicly available along with the patent disclosures for the Working Group in question.

Patent holders may:

1. Provide additional licensing information for documents produced by this Working Group
2. Provide the same additional licensing information for all documents with associated licensing obligations produced by this Working Group, or
3. Provide additional licensing information for any W3C document with associated licensing obligations produced by any W3C Working Group under the W3C Patent Policy.

Such licensing information should be sent tothe W3C Staff.

Please recall that, per section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy, a W3C Royalty-Free license:

may not impose any further conditions or restrictions on the use of any technology, intellectual property rights, or other restrictions on behavior of the licensee, but may include reasonable, customary terms relating to operation or maintenance of the license relationship such as the following: choice of law and dispute resolution.