Jonathan I. Strietzel is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and inventor. He is known for founding various companies as well as engineering and patenting several systems and methods in telecommunications, advertising, and
video gaming
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.
History
Jonathan Streitzel completed a bachelor's degree in Business Administration at
Chapman University
Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California, United States. Encompassing eleven colleges, the university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The school maintains its foundi ...
. In 1999 he invented systems for
ring-tone
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advertising. He later invented one of the first storage business models. In 2001 he patented a
Cloud computing
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system that constituted a cloud-based freemium online distribution model for music and films.
In 2005 he founded Clone Interactive alongside
Jon Kraft
Jon Kraft is an American business executive best known as a co-founder of Pandora Media, Inc. and its former CEO. He also co-founded Thrively, LiftOff, Big Stage Entertainment and Stanford Technology Group. Additionally, he has previously wor ...
and
Jon Snoddy
Jon Snoddy is an American technology expert who is currently the Advanced Development Studio Executive SVP at Walt Disney Imagineering. He was the co-founder of Big Stage Entertainment and has served as director, CTO, CCO and CTO in various ...
. The company later became
New media firm Big Stage Entertainment and was named by
Forbes
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as one of "America's 20 Most Promising Companies." In 2011 he founded Strietzel.Co, a software development company.
Patent lawsuit
In 2011 a company called Callertone Innovations LLC filed 18 lawsuits against
AT&T
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,
Verizon
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,
Sprint Nextel
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,
MetroPCS
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,
T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand of telecommunications by Deutsche Telekom
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and others for breaching two patents on
ring-tone
A ringtone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call. Originally referring to the sound of electromechanical striking of bells or gongs, the term refers to any sound by any device alerting of an incoming call.
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advertising. The patents, titled "Method and apparatus for selectively providing messages in telecommunications systems", included patent Nos. 7,852,995 and 7,860,225. Jonathan Strietzel was registered as inventor of the patents in question.
Patents
See also
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Jon Snoddy
Jon Snoddy is an American technology expert who is currently the Advanced Development Studio Executive SVP at Walt Disney Imagineering. He was the co-founder of Big Stage Entertainment and has served as director, CTO, CCO and CTO in various ...
References
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21st-century American businesspeople
Living people
1980 births