Google Hit With Patent Suit Over YouTube Live Video Streaming

Google’s YouTube Live video-streaming service infringes five patents related to techniques for streaming video and voice communications over networks, according to a new federal lawsuit.

Voxer, Inc. and Voxer IP LLC accused Google LLC and YouTube LLC of infringing patents describing methods that enable users to participate in multimedia conversations in real-time or time-shifted modes without first establishing end-to-end connections, in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. Voxer alleges infringement of US Patent Nos. 10,142,270, 10,511,557, 11,146,516, 11,658,929, and 11,777,883.

Key innovations include progressively transmitting streaming media ...