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Re:Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of ... by hedora on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:12PM (#22657660)
Prior art on peer to peer video conferencing from 1992: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe

I doubt Virnetx’s patent is particularly strong.

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Re:Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of ... by est31 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:18PM (#22657708)
> Apple responded by petitioning the PTO to invalidate these four patents. Through these various proceedings (and others initiated by additional interested parties), the PTO has invalidated every patent claim VirnetX has asserted against Apple, finding all either anticipated or obvious.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-832/126835/2019...

The four patents in question:

* https://patents.google.com/patent/US7418504B2/en

* https://patents.google.com/patent/US7921211B2/en

* https://patents.google.com/patent/US6502135B1/en

* https://patents.google.com/patent/US7490151B2/en

Sadly though, that decision by the PTO was partially reversed by the courts:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/09/virnetx-reverses-...

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