Cooperative Entertainment Inc., a North Carolina company, sued Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s cloud computing unit for patent infringement related to peer-to-peer content distribution technology.
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 20 in a California federal court, accuses Alibaba Cloud US LLC’s systems of delivering content over the internet while infringing a patent owned by Cooperative. Under dispute is US Patent No. 9,432,452.
Peer-to-peer distribution allows users to share video and other large files directly between their computers rather than downloading all the data from a central server. That can reduce bandwidth costs for content providers. Cooperative’s patent, issued in 2016, covers “dynamic ...
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