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Hi. I don't usually post on this forum, but I have a couple of things to say regarding the Acacia Tech. patents.
It had been over a year since I last read through Acacia's US patents. They seem to be going overboard with all of this now, which has prompted me to go through these patents again.
One of the immediate problems I see is that Acacia Tech. is using claims from different patents to enforce IP ownership of this "DMT technology."
The US patents, which they claim covers IP ownership of "DMT technology", are all extensions to the original US patent 5,132,992.
US patent 5,132,992 does not cover streaming audio and/or visual information because a subset of the invention, which is actually a process, states that a complete copy of the audio and/or visual information must be stored on the receiving system.
I'll quote from patent 5,132,992:
Claim 19. A distribution method responsive to requests from a user identifying items in a transmission system containing information to be sent from the transmission system to receiving systems at remote locations, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing a complete copy of the received information in the receiving system at the selected remote location
It is also stated in the description of the invention:
Another object of the present invention is to provide a picture and sound transmission system wherein the user may play back the selected audio/video material at any time selected by the user and retain a copy of the audio/video material for multiple playbacks in the future.
It is not the intention of modern streaming media technology to provide the user with the ability to store or retain a copy of the audio and/or visual data for later playback.
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