RealNetworks granted fundamental streaming media patent

[Posted April 25, 2006 by cook]

RealNetworks, Inc. has announced the reception of a fundamental patent for streaming media technology and applications. "The recently-issued patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,985,932, "Click-to-Stream") covers the core methods used when consumers select links to stream audio-visual media via web browsers and other media players. Reflecting Real's role as the pioneer of streaming media, the patent covers innovations going back to November 30, 1994, more than four months before Real introduced the groundbreaking RealAudio(R), which transformed the Web by bringing streaming audio to the Internet for the first time."

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