Microsoft agreed to settle a patent dispute with AT&T concerning technology for the transmission of voice over an IP network. AT&T alleged that its technology was being used in Microsoft’s NetMeeting and TrueSpeech products. Under the deal, Microsoft has made a payment to AT&T and the parties agreed to appeal a single issue to the Federal Circuit, with another payment contingent on the outcome of the appeal. http://www.att.comhttp://www.microsoft.com
AT&T and Microsoft Settle Voice Patent Claim
Share this article
Help others discover this reporting.
Explore More
From the Graveyard
You just read about Microsoft. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Metaswitch Networks built Carrier voice, IMS, cloud-native core and networking software. What became of it?
Metaswitch Networks brought Carrier voice, IMS, cloud-native core and networking software to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Microsoft. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Microsoft today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
On this day
March 4From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.