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Apple sued for lack of originality
APPLE HAS BEEN SLAPPED with another lack of originality lawsuit, this time over its QuickTime movie player.
Emblaze, which is a group of technology companies, claims that it owns a patent that describes a system for streaming media and that Quicktime infringes it.
The patent involves an HTTP Live Streaming feature in QuickTime that Apple seems to think sprang fully formed from the genius of Steve Jobs.
Emblaze said that it had been developing its streaming technology for over ten years and plans to roll it out in the First Else smartphone some time next year.
Mac Observer reports that the phone will be released through Emblaze's subsidiary company Else.
Emblaze's technology lets users stream content without requiring special servers and can also stream through firewalls.
Of course Apple is saying nothing about the lawsuit. It has until December 15 to reply. µ
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Isnt streaming already dead !?! see DivX hosting, Youtube they are just files servers, isnt it the client's downloading(not streaming) software which downlaods "starting" from the file's first segments instead just random location of file from storage !?!
Patents on streaming, it's not the 'streaming' that a patent is being applied, but the method, or technology on how that streaming works.
Sending bits in a specific order is fine, but invent your own method on how do do this ... using your analogy, the sending bits in a specific order, or opening your tap to get water is not the issue, but the technology on how to do this or perhaps using your example, the water pipes in the street, are the areas protected by the patent. Good luck getting the water out of your tap without using the water mains.
"More Back Doors?"
Nah, it probably just uses UDP like any other system that wants to get through firewalls.
UDP is stateless, connecting out to a server using UDP will result in a route back in via the same ports being created.
How long this route stays open is down to the configuration of the firewall, but it's usually a few minutes.
All you have to do is poke the occasional UDP packet towards the server to keep it open.
shouldn't be any patents or such on streaming, that would be the same as putting a patent on tap water. I mean, you don't have to download the entire city reservoir to take a drink now do you?
sending bits in a specific order that allows the client to make use of it before the entire file is downloaded, right? am I wrong cuz a patent on this is just stupid.
"and can also stream through firewalls"