IPR Details
Thrive Tech Services LLC's Statement about IPR related to draft-nunez-mfop-federated-ai-orchestration

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Submitted: March 24, 2026 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Thrive Tech Services LLC

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Ami Hoepner Nunez
Holder contact email ami.nunez@mahalaxmi.ai
Holder contact info

3330 FairChild Gardens Ave, suite 32152, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 33410-2438, United States

III. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Ami Hoepner Nunez
Email ami.nunez@mahalaxmi.ai
Other info

3330 FairChild Gardens Ave, suite 32152, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 33410-2438, United States

IV. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-nunez-mfop-federated-ai-orchestration ("Mahalaxmi Federation and Orchestration Protocol (MFOP)")
Revisions:
00
Sections:
7, 8

V. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

Number: US64/013564
Inventor: Ami Hoepner Nunez
Title: System and Method for Escrow-Gated AI Token Metering with Append-Only Settlement, Actual-Consumption Billing, and Multi-Operator Fee Stacking
Date: 2026-03-22
Notes: United States provisional patent application. Covers: payment escrow state machine implemented as an append-only event log with five event types (hold, meter, release, charge, refund) in which all billing state is derived by event replay and no mutable billing state records exist; actual-token-consumption settlement in which the charge amount is computed from the actual token count in the signed WorkUnitReceipt rather than pre-execution estimates, with automatic release events for unconsumed hold amounts; multi-operator fee stacking at dispatch time from database-configured BillingFeeConfig records supporting percentage markup, flat fee per kilotoken, and no-fee model types; runtime fee model reconfiguration through administrative API calls without code deployment or service restart. Filed by Thrive Tech Services LLC.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending Yes

VI. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All Implementers
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

Thrive Tech Services LLC is willing to grant a royalty-free, reasonable, and non-discriminatory license under US64/013564 to any party wishing to implement the Mahalaxmi Federation and Orchestration Protocol (MFOP) as described in draft-nunez-mfop-federated-ai-orchestration-00. Parties seeking a license should contact Ami Hoepner Nunez at ami.nunez@mahalaxmi.ai. Further information is available at https://mahalaxmi.ai/mfop/draft.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

VII. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Ami Hoepner Nunez
Submitter email ami.nunez@mahalaxmi.ai

VIII. Other Notes

Additional notes

This disclosure covers a United States provisional patent application filed by Thrive Tech Services LLC on 2026-03-22. Payment has been confirmed by the USPTO (Confirmation #6366, Patent Center #74963728). A formal filing receipt with official filing date has not yet been issued and this disclosure will be updated upon receipt. The full protocol specification is maintained at https://mahalaxmi.ai/mfop/draft.

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