Meta, X Hit With Patent Suits Over Content-Filtering Methods

An IT company hit Meta Platforms Inc. and X Corp. with patent infringement allegations concerning the social media platforms filtering posts and messages with algorithm and ranking systems.

Facebook, Instagram, and X—formerly known as Twitter— use similar methods to Sterling Computers Corp.'s US Patent No. 7,716,217 to filter posts and messages with systems that determine the relevancy for users, the South Dakota-basedcompany said in similar but separate lawsuits filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

• The ‘217 patent concerns a method for determining relevance of electronic content, according to Sterling Computers. The inventors created ...