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Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol.
Potential broadcast.com Patent Applications
January 4, 1999
1. Geographic IP Identification
Technique for pin-pointing the geographic location of a static IP device by triangulating routes taken by IP packets and building a database of IP addresses and DNS names.
2. Hybrid Networks
A commercial network of unicast and multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
3. Multi-Network Multicast
A commercial network of multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
4. Reverse Auction
Online auction mechanism in which a buyer who desires to purchase goods defines that desire, along with a maximum price that s/he will pay. Potential sellers then respond by offering their goods at a price below any previous bidders and at or below the designated maximum price.
5. Audio Ad Delivery
Software techniques for parsing files served by web server and acting upon text to perform functions such as audio ad rotation and synchronized audio ad/pop-up URL scripting.
6. Web Server Reporting System
Software techniques for reporting on very large web server of files across multiple web servers in order to comply with industry-standard web server reporting practices.
7. Commerce Payment Gateway Integration
Modular software routines for interfacing with a variety of payment getaway vendors (e.g. Mpact, Cybersource) for pay-per-view/listen and for traditional e-commerce.
8. Streaming Server Parsing And Reporting
Software techniques for reporting on very large streaming server log files across hundreds of streaming servers.
9. Streaming Authentication System
Custom database and related Software routines that extend RealAudio's 5.x implementation of user and player authentication.
10. Web Page Generation System
Set of databases and scripts for automatically generating website sections such as CD Jukebox, Radio Stations, AudioBooks, etc.
11. Live Events Management System
Custom data base and web-based system for managing daily events by collecting data on each event and "publishing" collected data to various groups as needed.
12. Automatic Content Promotion
Set of scripts that run against live event databases and generate files for publishing to Yahoo!, Real Networks, and CMP.
13. Telephony-Based Content Publication
System that allows people to call into a voice-mailbox and leave messages which are then automatically encoded into multimedia content and hosted on a website.
Mark Cuban wants to crack open the market for rare disease treatments statnews.com/2026/10/21/mark… via @statnews
Mark Cuban retweeted
This is not the exception. This is how they operate
Story Time: Buckle up for this one.
Patient called today pissed off. They weren’t pissed at me, more so pissed at their insurance company @DevotedHealth and @CVSHealthPBM
For the past month, @DevotedHealth has been pestering them about switching their medications over to their mail order @CVSHealthPBM
First it was atorvastatin and Jardiance, because they said the patient would have “cheaper” copays.
The patient called us to verify those prices.
Our prices were identical to what they would have paid at mail order.
Patient told @CVSHealthPBM NO!
They wanted to stay local.
A few days later, patient gets a message from @CVSHealthPBM stating they had two prescriptions waiting to be sent to the patient. Just needed the go ahead to mail them out.
It was for the same 2 prescriptions they had said no to a few days prior.
Patient called them back and told them no, they want to continue getting them locally…. That was the end of it.
Until today…
Patient called back and said now @CVSHealthPBM has another prescription for metformin ready for me and has already mailed it out.
It’s a prescription we have been filling at our independent pharmacy all of this calendar year at a $0 copay.
Patient told them, I didn’t authorize you to get this prescription ready for me at mail order, how did you receive the prescription?
@CVSHealthPBM told them that their Dr. had authorized a new prescription for them.
Patient calls their Dr.
Dr. states they never sent a prescription to mail order @CVSHealthPBM
So, let me sum this up and put a nice little bow on it for you:
@CVSHealthPBM requested a new prescription from patient’s Dr. without their consent.
@CVSHealthPBM prepared the new prescription for patient without their consent.
And finally, @CVSHealthPBM mailed out the prescription for the patient without their consent.
I don’t know who is ultimately at fault for this, but it’s damn sure not the patient…
The patient keeps saying NO, but @CVSHealthPBM says we don’t give a shit, we’re going to do it anyway.
@CMSGov @DrOzCMS @RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump
The cost savings @costplusdrugs could have offered for Urogynecologic medications
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3986…
Mark Cuban retweeted
Americans now owe $1.68 trillion on car loans — more than credit card debt and nearly equal to all federal student loans combined.
The average monthly payment on auto loans for new cars has risen to $680, which is 40% higher than in 2018.
fortune.com/2026/05/07/ameri…
Mark Cuban retweeted
📢 Another price drop, another reason to check costplusdrugs.com!
Naproxen-Esomeprazole Mg 500-20mg (generic for Vimovo) just got a 37% PRICE DROP on costplusdrugs.com! 👀
🔗 costplusdrugs.com/medication…
💊 30 delayed-release tablets
💰 New price: $73.11
With thousands of medications available and clear, upfront pricing, you can see what your prescription costs before you order.
🔎 Search your medication at costplusdrugs.com
Valid prescription required.
Mark Cuban retweeted
🎉 We're making room for more lower prices!
This time, Valsartan-Hydrochlorothiazide 160mg-25mg (generic for Diovan HCT) is getting the spotlight with a 39% PRICE DROP!
➕ costplusdrugs.com/medication…
💊 90 tablets
💰 New price: $11.14
And here's the best part: You don't need insurance to access our transparent pricing. Just search your medication, see the price upfront, and get started!
🔎 Find yours at costplusdrugs.com
Valid prescription required.
Right or Wrong ?
Switching costs for consumer AI, won't approach zero until there is a standardized export format for what is in a model's memory.
The more a consumer uses a model, the more it's memory stores. The more work to export and import
I'm not saying it can't be done. Obviously you can import from one model to another. But for regular users, that's a lot more difficult than saving to an xls or doc file
Curious what people think ?
Using Robots and AI, and smart people, Cost Plus Drugs have shrunk the ability to manufacture a line of drugs to the size of a tractor trailer.
It can be shipped anywhere. It can be daisy chained to scale. Each Pod can be used for a different type of medication. Including N of 1 therapies.
Mark Cuban retweeted
AI won’t take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI better than you, will take your job.
We’re already starting to see what kind of new jobs AI is creating.
AI requires significant technical work and surrounding services to deploy into the economy. This means jobs for AI engineers that build applied AI products sold to (or within) enterprises, FDEs to deploy agents into companies, new services firms for deploying AI, and more.
And even the published stats of new jobs undercount all the existing jobs that are transitioning to new areas of AI work in an enterprise. Many prior data, research, and software jobs large enterprises are also being repositioned for working with AI.
Every bank, life sciences company, manufacturer, and even law firm is bringing on more technical talent -or repositioning existing roles- to help with agent deployment in their companies. It’s a lot easier to picture what AI can replace vs. what it creates until it starts happening. Now we’re seeing what this looks like.
It’s really simple. Our Robots and AI vs their Robots and AI. If we can catch up on robotics/software , and can stay ahead on AI, there is zero reason manufacturing won’t come back, or initiate here.
At Cost Plus Drugs, the only thing holding us back from making generic drugs cheaper in Dallas than we can buy from Asia, are the fees we have to pay.
I wrote this 10 years ago. Only the numbers have changed
blogmaverick.com/2016/12/18/…
This can't be legal , can it ? Any healthcare lawyers do people bono work ?
Quick update for this saga…
Patient called back today with their newly-issued mail-order prescription in hand.
The prescription in question wasn’t even written by their primary physician.
It came from a prescriber they had never heard of/or seen.
I researched the provider on my own, come to find out they have 2 practice addresses: 1 in Ohio and the other in Eagan, MN. PO BOX 211699
Guess who is located in Eagan, MN?
Devoted Medical Group Professional Corporation and related Devoted Medical practices.
So, @DevotedHealth utilized one of their very own physicians to issue a fraudulent prescription for a patient who they’ve never seen or even knew.
Then shipped it off to the patient without their consent, thinking the patient wouldn’t question it?
Wow.
Mark Cuban retweeted
🚨 This price just got cut by MORE THAN HALF!
We're kicking another price to the curb! Loteprednol Etabonate 0.5% (generic for Lotemax) just got a 54% PRICE DROP on costplusdrugs.com! 👀
🔗 costplusdrugs.com/medication…
💊 10 mL bottle
💰 New price: $42.95
🔎 Find your medication today at costplusdrugs.com
Valid prescription required.
Mark Cuban retweeted
“There were still some organizations holding out hoping that price transparency will go away …
I think the FTC has formally cut off that possibility.”
The FTC is doing critical work to enforce hospital price disclosures. @alex_kacik
modernhealthcare.com/provide…
Great job Wendell
NEW: We've just released an updated Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group.
Our research now identifies 2,807 entities across UnitedHealth's sprawling corporate empire, including 376 additional entities since our original report in 2025.
Here's what the Center for Health & Democracy (@cforhd) found.
This is not the exception. This is how they operate
Story Time: Buckle up for this one.
Patient called today pissed off. They weren’t pissed at me, more so pissed at their insurance company @DevotedHealth and @CVSHealthPBM
For the past month, @DevotedHealth has been pestering them about switching their medications over to their mail order @CVSHealthPBM
First it was atorvastatin and Jardiance, because they said the patient would have “cheaper” copays.
The patient called us to verify those prices.
Our prices were identical to what they would have paid at mail order.
Patient told @CVSHealthPBM NO!
They wanted to stay local.
A few days later, patient gets a message from @CVSHealthPBM stating they had two prescriptions waiting to be sent to the patient. Just needed the go ahead to mail them out.
It was for the same 2 prescriptions they had said no to a few days prior.
Patient called them back and told them no, they want to continue getting them locally…. That was the end of it.
Until today…
Patient called back and said now @CVSHealthPBM has another prescription for metformin ready for me and has already mailed it out.
It’s a prescription we have been filling at our independent pharmacy all of this calendar year at a $0 copay.
Patient told them, I didn’t authorize you to get this prescription ready for me at mail order, how did you receive the prescription?
@CVSHealthPBM told them that their Dr. had authorized a new prescription for them.
Patient calls their Dr.
Dr. states they never sent a prescription to mail order @CVSHealthPBM
So, let me sum this up and put a nice little bow on it for you:
@CVSHealthPBM requested a new prescription from patient’s Dr. without their consent.
@CVSHealthPBM prepared the new prescription for patient without their consent.
And finally, @CVSHealthPBM mailed out the prescription for the patient without their consent.
I don’t know who is ultimately at fault for this, but it’s damn sure not the patient…
The patient keeps saying NO, but @CVSHealthPBM says we don’t give a shit, we’re going to do it anyway.
@CMSGov @DrOzCMS @RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump
who knew that United Healthcare owned a big internet media company. What could go wrong ?
sunlightreportinsurance.com/…
Mark Cuban retweeted
Until you also get transparency at the contract level, the big conglomerates will find ways to game the system.
Make Gag Clauses and redactions of any kinds in healthcare contracts, with any state or federal agency, and we have a chance.
And allowing patients to have cash pay our bases that are less than their OOP cost is also critical
Mark Cuban retweeted
"If it were up to me, I'd get rid of all political parties. I think they've outlived their usefulness. They're just a way to raise money and to try to aggregate power as opposed to the power of ideas," @mcuban tells @nickgillespie on The Reason Interview podcast.