A patent infringement suit was filed in Texas federal court in February by Orostream LLC against several companies including Fox News Network LLC, NFL Enterprises LLC, Target Corp., and World Wrestling Entertainment. The suit alleges that defendant companies infringed upon Patent No. 5,828,837, titled “Computer Network System and Method for Efficient Information Transfer.”
WWE recently filed for the invalidation of the part of the patent that Orostream LLC is claiming sports and entertainment companies are infringing upon through the use of their mobile content distribution applications. WWE claims the relevant part of the patent is too abstract. Defendants who make arguments such as these have often been successful.
The patent deals with the tracking of information transfer rates, and then making adjustments to improve the efficiency of those transfer rates. The case is Orostream LLC v. ABS-CBN International et al.