Paltalk, a leading online video and audio chat service, isn’t in the gaming business, but that hasn’t stopped it from going after Microsoft Corporation’s XBox Live service. In September, Paltalk filed suit against Microsoft in federal district court in Marshall, Texas.
The XBox Live service lets users of Microsoft’s popular gaming consoles play against each other in real time. Paltalk hosts chat sites, for which subscribers pay a fee. The company also sells ads on different chats. The two patents at issue in this suit were originally owned by a VoIP company called HearMe.com, which went bankrupt and sold its name and patents to Paltalk in 2000. The patents describe technology that lets several users communicate with each other while playing a game in real time. (HearMe started life as an online gaming company before switching to Internet telephony.)
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