Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez

Technology Leader, Startup Expert, Expert Witness, Tech Investor, Tech Strategy, Media Professional & Inventor.
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Featured in:
  • 17+5 US & European patents issued
  • 50+ IP cases, incl. 15+ IPRs
  • $300M+ in licenses & settlements
  • 80+ startups incubated at EGLAVATOR
  • Incubated PointsKash ( $100M raised)
  • Startup Incubator Expert
  • Ex-Motorola
  • Ex-Microsoft
  • Fulbright Scholar
  • IEEE Member
  • FAU Industry Advisory Board
  • TECHEDTV Podcast host
  • Inventor Modern Handoff
  • Honduras Global Co-Founder
  • Mobility Workx Co-Founder
  • Technical and Damages Expert

Introduction

Serial entrepreneur, inventor, technology leader

Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and technology leader — the founder of EGLA CORP, a technology company that develops its own technologies and, intellectual property, including MEVIA, MEVIA AI, MEVIA OS, Demolizer, FETTLE AI, PTAB Experts, and others. EGLA serves as a platform where other innovators build ventures at the EGLAVATOR, his technology incubator and accelerator in Coral Springs, FL. The EGLAVATOR assists and invests in early-stage technology companies, offering funding advice, go-to-market strategy, intellectual property guidance, and hands-on execution support.

As a technology leader, Dr. Hernandez has worked with engineering and business teams since his days at Motorola and Microsoft. Through his intellectual property portfolio, he and his team at Mobility Works, have reached licensing agreements with wireless patents covering Motorola, Google, Apple, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, DISH Wireless, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Comcast, and other major technology companies.

Dr. Edwin is an expert in technology, licensing, and venture funding with extensive experience in wireless communications, AI, cloud computing, IoT, electronic devices, and advanced software platforms — a hands-on coder who builds prototypes for many of the products developed at his incubator and is well versed in code reviews and hardware/software audits.

Dr. Hernandez earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a named inventor on 17 issued U.S. patents and 5 European patents. He has provided technical expert witness services in 50+ intellectual property cases, including 15+ inter partes reviews (IPRs), and four testimonies at trial, Daubert hearings, and numerous depositions. He was a Fulbright Scholar and has twice served as a judge for the Mobile World Congress. He is a Microsoft and Motorola alumnus, a member of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) at Florida Atlantic University, and producer of his own technology podcast, TECHEDTV.

Dr. Hernandez has testified as an expert witness in several high-value matters, including for Blue Radios at trial (a $24.8M award, per Nasdaq), for the Mojo Mobility legal team on wireless-charging patents (a $192M award, per Reuters), for the TOT Power Control team on power-control patents (a $110M award, per Reuters), and for Intellectual Ventures against LG in a multi-million-dollar licensing dispute.

Edwin's Blog

Short BIO – 2012

I will be at an FIU Meeting next June and was requested a short BIO, here you go: Dr. Edwin Hernandez was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, BSEE’95, MSECE’99, and PhD’02. Edwin has worked in several telecommunication companies in Central America including RACSA and COMTELCA. Dr. Hernandez became one of the Internet pioneers in Honduras, when in 1996-started COMPUNET, one of

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BigBlueButton 0.8 Setup Playback/Record

The Playback and Record requires the use of some Ruby on Rails scripts located in the /dev/source/bigbluebutton/record-playback/ directory. The URLs that need to be changed are: matterhorn/webapp/bigbluebutton.yml:bbb_url: ‘http://192.168.1.37/bigbluebutton/api’ matterhorn/scripts/matterhorn.yml:server: 192.168.0.147 slides/scripts/slides.yml:playback_host: 192.168.0.166 Additionally, it seems that nginx need to be changed and updated: bbb_salt: ‘e49…….’ bbb_url: ‘http://webmeeting.eglacomm.net/bigbluebutton/api’ bbb_version: ‘0.8’ I am not sure if this information is complete because it

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vQMod for Php Files

vQmod is a php modification engine without actually modifying the actual file, it’s done at runtime and facilitate patching delivery and adding new features to already existing baselines. As an example you can see http://code.google.com/p/vqmod/wiki/Examples You have to create an XML file with something like:patch_login.xml If you follow the sample, I bet you won’t be dissapointed.

Big Blue Button – Install

When installing BBB, Big Blue Button in 0.8-beta you may find problems with some dependencies, specially Freeswitch. An error such as this may be found: Unpacking bbb-freeswitch (from …/bbb-freeswitch_1.0.7-ubuntu41_amd64.deb) … dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bbb-freeswitch_1.0.7-ubuntu41_amd64.deb (–unpack):  trying to overwrite ‘/opt/freeswitch/sounds/music/16000/danza-espanola-op-37-h-142-xii-arabesca.wav’, which is also in package freeswitch-sounds-music-16000 0:1.0.8-0ubuntu5 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for ureadahead … Errors

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6th and 7th issued patent

I just found out that my first 8,000,000 series patent was issued, as part of my work at Microsoft. UA Pat 8024487 and US Pat. 7996505. I may also have another but a continuation for the Proxy Mobile IP work since several claims were already accepted during prosecution.  The good thing is that, I used my address in Honduras (Tegucigalpa, HN) and Honduran

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OpenCart Install

Error when installing opencart 1.5.1 and using a lowercase/uppercase Database name.  in /var/www/dmx2go/upload/admin/model/tool/backup.php on line 21 This means that the call to $query =$this->db->query(“SHOW TABLES FROM `” . DB_DATABASE . “`”);  is returning the DB_DABATASE with uppercase/lowercase. You have two options: Rename the database to all lowercase  or change line 21 on backup.php for foreach ($query->rows as $result) {        

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Sealight Hack Restore steps

My site got hacked by software-id.ru or someone pointing there. All was root caused to the use of “Sealight” a very popular theme by WooThemes.com. The issue is pretty much unnoticealbe if you don’t have a “catch-all” address in your email, as I did.  I received emails from customer, news, consumer, @mydomain.com at a rate of 100+/hr many went to the spam

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April 2011 Updates

I have travel again to Honduras, and visited friends, as well as participated in activities related to “Honduras Global.”  I presented both at UNAH (National University of Honduras) and UJCS (Universidad Jose Cecilio del Valle) on LTE/4G Wireless technologies. It was good to share with a EE and CS students there how the future will pan out in the wireless world. Interesting

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Blogs to take a look at

There are a few blogs that me or my family are working on, please take your time to review them: FUTMOB.com, we have relaunched this and it’s available at http://futmob.com/blogs/ RxProfile News, a new effort launching RxProfile News which finds several links to FDA, Prescription medication, and other interesting information online http://rxprofile.net/news My dad has started blogging about Economic topics

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Phonegap is my choice

As I was reading the link provided by http://a2f.me/9am2o  I have found that my comments on what framework is best can be summarized as follows: PhoneGap is multiplatform, relies on Webview so render the page and you can then use javascript to control the device, obviously if there is a lot of back and forth or event feedbacks from the platform those

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Important AddTypes in yoru server when doing mobile development

In your mime.conf on Apache, make sure you have: AddType text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor                .jad AddType application/vnd.rim.cod                         .cod AddType application/java-archive                        .jar AddType application/vnd.android.package-archive .apk This will cover you for BBerry, Nokia, Android.

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