VoIP-Pal公司VS Apple公司

人：VoIP-Pal公司VS Apple公司

事：指控Apple的智能手機、平板電腦和筆記本侵犯了VoIP-Pal公司的網絡電話專利

時：2016/5

地：USPTO

物：VoIP-Pal公司擁有許多網絡電話（VoIP）專利，一些已經被授予，一些已經提出申請。而Apple侵犯專利的服務主要包括移動聊天工具iMessage、視頻通話服務FaceTime等。VoIP-Pal公司曾經在2013年收購美國電信運營商Digifonica，VoIP-Pal公司宣稱是“寬頻VoIP市場的領先者”。

摘要：

今年來，Apple已經在一些專利侵權訴訟中敗訴，被迫進行經濟賠償。4月份，Apple語音助手工具Siri被法庭判決侵犯他人專利，Apple將賠償2500萬美元。3月份，德國一家法庭判決Apple多個產品侵犯了一家公司的網絡電話專利。2月初，法庭判決Apple的iMessage、FaceTime等聊天工具，侵犯了美國VirnetX控股公司的互聯網安全技術專利，Apple需賠償6.25億美元。

  

PS.

Plaintiff, Voip-Pal.com, Inc.’s (“VPLM”) Complaint against Defendant Apple, Inc., (“Apple”), alleges infringement of U.S Patent No. 8,542,815 (“the ‘815 patent”, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A), and its continuation patent, U.S Patent No. 9,179,005 (“the ‘005 patent”, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B). VPLM further complains and alleges as follows: 
THE NATURE OF THE ACTION 
1. VPLM is a technical leader in the broadband Voice-over-Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) market with the ownership and development of a portfolio of leading edge VoIP patent applications

1.   Producing routing messages for voice over IP communications
Digifonica (International) Limited US 8542815 B2

ABSTRACT

A process and apparatus to facilitate communication between callers and callees in a system comprising a plurality of nodes with which callers and callees are associated is disclosed. In response to initiation of a call by a calling subscriber, a caller identifier and a callee identifier are received. Call classification criteria associated with the caller identifier are used to classify the call as a public network call or a private network call. A routing message identifying an address, on the private network, associated with the callee is produced when the call is classified as a private network call and a routing message identifying a gateway to the public network is produced when the call is classified as a public network call.

2.   Producing routing messages for voice over IP communications 

Digifonica (International) Limited US 9179005 B2

ABSTRACT

A process and apparatus to facilitate communication between callers and callees in a system comprising a plurality of nodes with which callers and callees are associated is disclosed. In response to initiation of a call by a calling subscriber, a caller identifier and a callee identifier are received. Call classification criteria associated with the caller identifier are used to classify the call as a public network call or a private network call. A routing message identifying an address, on the private network, associated with the callee is produced when the call is classified as a private network call and a routing message identifying a gateway to the public network is produced when the call is classified as a public network call.

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