US 8,270,343 Broadcasting of textual and multimedia information
5 defendants · 5 suits · updated September 14, 2026
Also cited as U.S. Patent No. 8,270,343 · US8270343B2 · US 8,270,343 B2 · 8270343 · the '343 patent
Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC has filed 5 patent-infringement suits on US 8,270,343, "Broadcasting of textual and multimedia information" since July 30, 2026, 3 of them in the E.D. Tex., against 5 distinct defendants including Arcadyan Technology Corporation, Calix, Inc. and Sercomm Corporation. The patent was granted September 18, 2012 on a priority date of December 20, 2004. Its abstract opens: "A wireless communication system comprises a broadcast transmitter broadcasting textual and multimedia information to a remote receiver unit." The examiner cited 9 references during prosecution.
- Assignee
- Velocity Communication Technologies LLC
- Priority date
- December 20, 2004
- Granted
- September 18, 2012
- Expires
- December 20, 2024
- Status
- Active - Reinstated
- Claims
- 16 (3 independent)
- Inventors
- Pierre Tardy, Laurence Poirier-Clarac
- Full text
- Google Patents
The suits
5 cases · E.D. Tex. (3) · D. Del. (2)
| Filed | Defendant | Plaintiff | Court | Docket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | Arcadyan Technology Corporation | Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC | E.D. Tex. | 5:26-cv-00102 |
| 2026-07-30 | Calix, Inc. | Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC | D. Del. | 1:26-cv-00937 |
| 2026-07-30 | Sercomm Corporation | Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC | E.D. Tex. | 5:26-cv-00101 |
| 2026-07-30 | TCL Electronics Holdings Limited | Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC | E.D. Tex. | 5:26-cv-00103 |
| 2026-07-30 | Vistance Networks, Inc. | Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC | D. Del. | 1:26-cv-00944 |
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Independent claims
What is actually asserted, verbatim.
1. A wireless communication system comprises: a broadcast transmitter operable to broadcast a text file comprising textual information, and multimedia information to a remote receiver unit; and a server operably coupled to the broadcast transmitter,-wherein the server is arranged to: receive the text file and the multimedia information; store the text file as a single textual data block including the textual information; separate the multimedia information into multiple multimedia data sub-blocks, each multimedia data sub-block including a portion of the multimedia information; and provide the single textual data block and the multimedia data sub-blocks to the broadcast transmitter in multiple time-sliced packets for broadcasting to the remote receiver unit, each time-sliced packet comprising the single textual data block and one or more multimedia data sub-blocks.
8. A wireless communication unit comprises: a receiver operably coupled to a signal manipulation circuit and operable to receive and process a text file comprising textual information and multimedia information, wherein the receiver receives multiple time-sliced bursts of data sub-blocks and the signal manipulation circuit processes each time-sliced burst of data sub-blocks such that each data sub-block includes a single textual data block that includes all of the textual information of the text file: and also includes one or more multimedia sub-block that each include a portion of the multimedia information.
10. A method of broadcasting a text file comprising textual information and multimedia information to a remote receiver unit in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the text file and the multimedia information; storing the text file as a single textual data block including the textual information; partitioning the multimedia information into multiple multimedia data sub-blocks, each multimedia data sub-block including a portion of the multimedia information; and providing the single textual data block and the multimedia data sub-blocks to a broadcast transmitter in multiple time-sliced packets for broadcasting to a remote receiver unit.
Art before the examiner
12 references of record, 9 cited by the examiner.
Everything listed here was before the Office and is what a challenge must go beyond. Art the examiner never saw is where an invalidity search starts.
Examiner-cited
- US20010000194A1 — System and method for a master scheduler (Sequeira William J.)
- US20020156804A1 — Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis (International Business Machines Corporation)
- US20020199148A1 — Cross media error protection method and system (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)
- GB2396444A — A Method of Announcing Sessions (Nokia Corp)
- US6961346B1 — System and method for converting packet payload size (Cisco Technology, Inc.)
- US6987980B1 — Transmission frame and radio unit for transmitting short messages with different data format (Robert Bosch Gmbh)
- US20060085424A1 — Web page downloading device with distributed data flows and method thereof (Mitac Technology Corp.)
- US20060146853A1 — System and method for sending related data over a digital broadcast system (Nokia Corporation)
- US7447986B2 — Multimedia information encoding apparatus, multimedia information reproducing apparatus, multimedia information encoding process program, multimedia information reproducing process program, and multimedia encoded data (Yamaha Corporation)
Applicant-cited and other (3)
- US20020078451A1 — Transmitter system and transmitting method, receiver system and receiving method and transmission media
- WO2004066652A1 — Method, system and network entity for providing digital broadband transmission
- WO2004084475A1 — Method, system and network entity for data transmission and reception with header protection
Classification
- H04H20/16primary — Arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly
- H04H20/42 — Arrangements for resource management
- H04H60/25 — Arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
- H04H60/72 — Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information using electronic programme guides [EPG]
- H04N21/64315 — DVB-H
Family
- US8270343B2 — B2 (2012)
- US20090268648A1 — A1 (2009)
- 3 foreign family members: EP1832115A1, WO2006066617A1, TW200637219A
Abstract
A wireless communication system comprises a broadcast transmitter broadcasting textual and multimedia information to a remote receiver unit. The broadcast transmitter is operably coupled to a signal manipulation function and arranged to receive and process a broadcast signal that comprises both a textual portion and multimedia information. The signal manipulation function separates the textual and multimedia information into multiple bursts of data sub-blocks, wherein substantially each sub block comprises the textual data and a sub-block of multimedia information for transmitting to the remote receiver unit. By implementing the aforementioned inventive concepts, faster access to the most important (i.e. semantic) part of the transmitted information can be obtained.
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