( February 27, 2025, 18:39 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: An Avago patent directed to eliminating latency during streaming was correctly canceled by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled. In its successful petition for inter partes review, or IPR, Amazon asserted US Patent No. 9,402,098 would have been obvious on the basis of a prior art patent application titled “Adaptable Accelerated Content Streaming,” which disclosed a solution to latency of front-end acceleration in streaming “so that the buffer on the client device can be filled quicker.” Once buffer fill is finished, the application teaches, streaming is reduced to a steady state rate. That corresponds to various limitations in the ‘098 patent, according to the appellate court, which rejected Avago’s assertion that a person of skill in the art would have modified the application to measure the available bandwidth between server and client. The ‘098 patent is one of more than one dozen Avago-owned patents Amazon stands accused of infringing in California federal court litigation.See attached document....
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