Interstate Robotics, Inc - Partnership Program

Partnership Program

Introduction

The goal of our partnership program is to cultivate a long term relationship with developers interested in using our core technology. The purpose is to establish a worldwide network of developers who are

empowered by the availiability of a non-proprietary, commodity operating system
given a means of extending operating system services
focused on mixing-and-matching value-added software components according to our market development strategy
motivated by generous profit-sharing opportunities and product ownership

Please contact us if you have a software component, value proposition, or business concept which is consistent with our product roadmap and business plan. Any information you provide will be used for assessment purposes only and treated in the highest confidence. An overview of our business plan is given below.

Executive Summary

Interstate Robotics is a high-tech startup seeking venture capital to exploit cost/performance opportunities for desktop PCs, web-enabled PCs, and web appliances. Our business plan is sustained by the following core technology which establishes the foundation of multiple products according to a product-platform development strategy:

Operating systems to include FreeDOS and Win16S/32S. Win16S and Win32S are the lower layers of Windows 3.X and 9.X, respectively, which are available from second sources and may be utilized independently of the upper layers. Win16S/32S and FreeDOS are non-proprietary, communally defined, and shared by a world-wide network of developers without belonging to anyone.
Direct Device Interfacesâ (DDIs) providing a means of dynamically extending Win16S/32S services by exposing the functionality of physical devices in a computer system. Existing DDI products expose the functionality of graphics, timer/scheduler, physical memory, and video data acquisition devices; and are protected by United States Patent No. 6,078,747.
Credit-card PCs and PC-on-a-chip technology.
Internet modems providing total internet connectivity on a chip, i.e., the functional equivalent of the Winsock API, a modem, and modem device driver.
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) with native language compilers that produce optimized code for credit-card PCs.
Micro-disks such as DataPlay, which are storage devices a little larger than the size of a quarter and capable of storing hours of CD quality music, hundreds of digital photographs, dozens of games, and entire collections of books complete with multimedia and audio.
Small, high performance, high resolution, and low-cost VGA-compatible Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs).
A Visual Programming Tool (VPT) providing a means to develop software applications from reusable software components by drawing box-and-wire diagrams.
Reusable Image Processing (IP) software components with application to niche markets for gauging and measurement, object tracking, process control, and video surveillance.
RTILabs’ DOS Navigator (DN) web browser and protocol stack source code which may be used to develop product according to the General Public License (GPL).
Source code libraries available on demand via the world wide web.

In the short-term, we also plan to commence and maintain legal actions for unauthorized use of our invention by numerous corporations currently incorporating DDIs into their products.

The short-term plan is to develop a hand-held gaming device and corresponding web page. The web page will be used by customers and developers to download and upload games, respectively. The gaming device will be sold and manufactured by a large toy company. Components include a $40 credit-card PC, two inch LCD, power supply, mini-disk, and DDIs to sound, graphics, and timing devices. Interstate Robotics and game developers will share a royalty for each unit that is sold by the toy company. In addition to attracting a world-wide network of gaming developers with revenue sharing opportunities, Interstate Robotics will lower transaction barriers by distributing the gaming device Software Development Kit (SDK) free-of-charge.

The long-term plan is to collaborate with several technology partners in order to develop Device-to-Device (D2D), Business-to-Business (B2B), and desktop applications running on a Multi-Function PCs (MFPCs). The MFPC consists of a credit-card PC, power supply, mini-disk, and connector which plugs into various device platforms to create multiple products. The relationship between MFPC platforms and functionality is as folows:

Device Platform Functionality

Internet Modem

Printer

15-21" Monitor

Hard Drive

Network appliance providing access to the web and subscription based software services

Internet Modem

15-21" Monitor

Network PC

Internet Modem

Camera

Video Surveillance System

2-3" Monitor

Game Pad

Hand-Held Gaming Device

The subscription based software services accessed using the network appliance are similar to that provided by desktop.com and infospace.com. Because DDIs provide a means by which applications dynamically link to the network appliance operating environment, however, the software services may run on the client side to:

Reduce bandwidth requirements in order to improve the quality of service and eliminate the need for high speed internet access.
Eliminate any requirement for information security since user data is not exchanged with the service provider.
Provide real-time capability for applications such as home security and condition monitoring.

Several factors will allow us to gain significant market share:

There is currently a technological discontinuity from desktop to web-centric systems.
Adoption of standards such as CORBA and the five-layer TCP/IP Internet Protocol has increased the degree of substitutability between products.
The combination of DDIs, internet modems, and PC-on-a-chip technology enable cost-performance opportunities.
DDIs allow the operating system to be treated as a user-extendible commodity. If history repeats itself, the impact on markets and corresponding benefits to the consumer will be similar to when non-proprietary hardware (the IBM PC) banished proprietary systems (Amega, Commodore, DEC) from the marketplace.

In summary, our main competitive advantage is the scaleable approach of our technology and the ability to exploit the full flexibility of a programming language without the restrictions, complexity, and overhead imposed by popular operating systems. Our time-to-market is short, mainly because it is easier to utilize a highly scaleable solution from scratch than to use an inappropriate existing infrastructure of programming languages and operating systems.