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Meta ordered to pay a hefty sum for violating live-streaming patents
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Meta has been ordered to pay Voxer — creator of the Walkie Talkie messaging app — over $174 million in damages after a jury in Texas federal courtroom discovered the social media big responsible of violating two live-streaming patents with Fb Dwell and Instagram Dwell.
The patents in query had been developed by Voxer co-founder Tom Katis, a US Military veteran in search of to repair the shortcomings he skilled in battlefield communications after his fight unit was ambushed in Kunar Province in 2003. Katis and his group started creating communications options in 2006, leading to new know-how that enabled the transmission of stay voice and video communications. Voxer was then shaped in 2007, and the Walkie Talkie app was launched in 2011.
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