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About Wolzien LLC

Since 2005, Wolzien LLC has helped major media organizations understand and adapt to the industry's strategic changes, while leading in change itself through invention, technology, and content development merging social and mass media. Clients have ranged from Discovery Communications to Warner Bros. (and the combined WBD), Microsoft to the Directors Guild of America.

Our approach is a unique synthesis of  five decades in media operations, line management, corporate management, securities analysis, television news management, and intellectual property development.

We have amassed a global portfolio of intellectuzl property, now represented  by our wholly owned Video River Group LLC.  The patents focus on the management of large numbers of high quality IP Video connections from smartphones and other consumer devices for creative use in streaming and linear video production, and other industries. The VRG patents were developed by Wolzien LLC and its operating unit, The Video Call Center, which operated from 2014 until 2022 when its assets were purchased by Nextologies LTD. 

Our inventions began in the late 1990s with "embedded triggers" or "click through" technology -- the use of online addresses within video signals-- to permit viewers to go directly to a specific location on line while watching TV.  Those click-to-buy or "more info" buttons on many TV remote controls remain the most obvious application of US Patent 5,761,606.  Ultimately Kudelski-Nagra acquired the patents and reached licensing agreements with Apple, Netflix and Disney, among others.

You can find bio material on the Background page, speeches and publications on the Speeches page.

Wolzien LLC is a New York entity formed in 2005 and  jointly owned by Valerie Wolzien and Tom Wolzien.  Wolzien LLC is sole owner of The Video Call Center, LLC, and Video River 
Group LLC. 

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