{"id":10764,"date":"2013-08-31T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2013-08-31T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:21:47","slug":"after-patent-loss-apple-tweaks-facetime-and-logs-500000-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10764","title":{"rendered":"After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime\u2014and logs 500,000 complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before the VirnetX case, nearly all FaceTime calls were done through a system of direct communication. Essentially, Apple would verify that both parties had valid FaceTime accounts and then allow their two devices to speak directly to each other over the Internet, without any intermediary or &#8220;relay&#8221; servers. However, a small number of calls\u20145 to 10 percent, according to an Apple engineer who testified at trial\u2014were routed through &#8220;relay servers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both sides in the litigation admit that if Apple routes its FaceTime calls through relay servers, it will avoid infringing the VirnetX patents. Once Apple was found to be infringing\u2014and realized it could end up paying an ongoing royalty for using FaceTime\u2014the company redesigned the system so that all FaceTime calls would rely on relay servers. Lease believes the switch happened in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/08\/report-after-patent-loss-apple-tweaks-facetime-and-logs-500000-complaints\/\">Report: After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime\u2014and logs 500,000 complaints | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the VirnetX case, nearly all FaceTime calls were done through a system of direct communication. Essentially, Apple would verify that both parties had valid FaceTime accounts and then allow their two devices to speak directly to each other over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[288,875,34,1189],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-apple","tag-litigation","tag-patents","tag-video-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10765,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions\/10765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}