Netflix Sues Broadcom, VMware Over Infringement of CPU Patents

December 24, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

Broadcom Inc. and VMware LLC’s cloud storage products infringe five Netflix Inc. patents covering CPU technology, according to a federal lawsuit.

VMware’s services and goods, including VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine, infringe Netflix’s US Patent Nos. 7,779,424; 7,797,707; 8,799,891; 8,185,893; and 8,863,122, the streaming company said in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Netflix’s patents aim to improve the monitoring of CPU usage in cloud storage environments, optimizing energy use of digitized versions of physical computers, and remotely controlling multiple digitized computers, ...

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