Interesting as you might sound, I don’t think you’re absolutely right
If you’re interested on verifying for yourself, do check on their website, because by law all application granted are published. I hope that also saves you the stress of asking for my certificate as that could be deemed preposterous.
Simply visit NCC. Search for “Mobile Software” under Title of work and “Literary works” under Work Type
I could also refer you to the publication from Trademark and Patent office when it’s made available online.
Also, I made reference to “seeking a legal advise” as it was handle by our legal advisor.
Finally, I will appreciate if we stick to discussing more about the app and leave non trivial issues as I believe this forum should be more of product hacks and product development.
If you still have other queries on copyrights and patents, please Pchat me and I will be more than willing to respond to them. Please let’s not bore other netizens.
Preposterous? LOL. A patent certificate does not contain any information that is sensitive or private. It is a thing of pride (reason you bragged about it) that you should be free to showcase publicly. Some businesses frame it and hang it in their office for visitors to see.
I can see you’re getting angry you’ve been outed. Let me tell you a secret, most here know you lied about the patent. They only chose to ignore your antics. This isn’t LindaIkejiBlog comment section where you can spin tales and expect no one will notice.
Dude, you don’t have a patent. Look at the date of registration on NCC website. You registered barely 3 weeks ago. No way you got a patent in that time. The only thing that proves is that you applied for COPYRIGHT protection. Which is almost silly considering all literary works, software inclusive, are protected by default and you don’t need to “register” for anything.
Asking you to prove you got a patent is pertinent to the discussion considering you claimed you got a patent to protect your revolutionary technology. Don’t try to brush it aside.
You are starting your business with dishonesty. Shame on you.
Please show me in the original post where I mentioned a patent certificate…My initial post made reference to NCC certificate. What I meant by the patent from trademark and patent office is that it has gotten approval where by an acknowledgement is issued after a search and the certificate will be issued after it has been duly published in the trademark journal for a period of at least 2 months for any objection.
Again, NCC has nothing to do with Patents. Yes they’re responsible for Copyright protection of Software Code, as it falls under literary works, but they don’t issue patents.
Geofencing could be a little tricky. Unless you intend to mark the coordinates of every single lecture hall/theatre/auditorium in Nigeria, if for example, you select, “Law Auditorium, University of Lagos”, as lecture venue, there may be a tendency of your app to capture phones some distance outside the venue, so students may still try to beat it. Also, if the lecture venue has more than one floor, a student on another floor would also be captured.
Racial recognition: What happens when a student’s selfie captures two or more other student’s faces prominently?
Why selfie? Wouldn’t all that picture-taking impact on your storage requirements? Why not fingerprint? (Iris/retina scan***Overkill maybe)
Surely, the app wouldn’t stop from leaving the class once attendance is taken or coming late to class… I believe as you grow, you would build in features to take care of this.
Keep pushing!!
Thanks for the technical question regarding the apps effectiveness in addressing lecture attendance realities.
You are quite right that Geofencing is quite tricky. What we tried doing was to incorporate “range precision” in the algorithm that users must fall within for their participation to be deemed successful. During testing we noticed that these could work with bigger classes but not so effectively with smaller classes as some users could be outside the class or by the window and will still take attendance successfully.
As you rightly noted, we are trying to look at the possibility of marking coordinates of lecture halls, triangulation and another novel method that might require device sensors.
Finally, because lecturers can verify the list on their devices, we discussed with our collaborating Universities on the need to empower lecturers to drop users who did not participate but managed to take attendance. Their response was although that sounds good but that option could also affect the integrity of the system which currently and preferably in their opinion does not allow anybody to add or drop users.
To this end, the team will appreciate inputs on how best we could address these…
We have two modes of attendance…Code and Facial…We had to drop Fingerprint functionality due to privacy issues.
We choose facial pictures “Selfies” because almost everyone is confident taking pictures with their smartphones and facial pictures have unique features that are particular to every individual.
We have an inbuilt template matching algorithm that works with a facial API to ensure that “real time” pictures taken at every attendance corresponds with the profile picture of that users account. The pictures are not stored apart from profile picture.
As you rightly noted…Iris/Retina is an overkill…which is why we dropped finger print as testers complained about privacy issues. Hopefully with time
Currently, we are still trying to figure exactly how to solve this problem with “corresponding attendance matching” functionality as what we have now empowers the lecturers to take attendance whenever they want to take attendance. The challenge with this is after the attendance, students can leave the class.
Hopefully, in the next build we would test “corresponding attendance match” or any other novel solution we discover to see if it addresses the problem.
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