Meta has been ordered to pay Voxer — creator of the Walkie Talkie messaging app — over $174 million in damages after a jury in Texas federal court docket discovered the social media big responsible of violating two live-streaming patents with Fb Reside and Instagram Reside.
The patents in query have been developed by Voxer co-founder Tom Katis, a US Military veteran looking for to repair the shortcomings he skilled in battlefield communications after his fight unit was ambushed in Kunar Province in 2003. Katis and his group started creating communications options in 2006, leading to new know-how that enabled the transmission of stay voice and video communications. Voxer was then fashioned in 2007, and the Walkie Talkie app was launched in 2011.
