Photo-Rendering Function on Roku TV Violates 3 Patents, Alleges Complaint
Roku TV functionality to send photos from smartphones to TVs violates three U.S. patents assigned to Ortiz & Associates Consulting, alleged a complaint (in Pacer) filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. The three patents, granted March 2015-January…
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2017, describe methods for wirelessly “rendering” content on a TV from a handheld smart device, said the complaint. Before the patents, inventor Luis Ortiz “recognized that wireless device users were generally restricted in all data use by small device-based viewers,” through their limited graphic-user-interface functionality or “inconveniently located rendering resources,” it said. Thursday, Roku didn’t comment. Ortiz filed similar complaints Feb. 1 against Google and HP in U.S. District Court in Chicago, records show. Google and Ortiz settled June 7, while HP successfully moved July 2 to transfer the case to U.S. District Court in San Francisco.