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Twitter in Patent Trouble
There have been many predictions of Twitter getting into lawsuit trouble as it continues to grow, but none have come true… until now.
The Texas based company, TechRadium, filed a lawsuit against Twitter for patent infringement just yesterday in Houston, TX. TechRadium references three patents in the lawsuit that defend TechRadium’s mass notification systems called “IRIS,” or Immediate Response Information System. The IRIS system runs around the idea of an administrator sending out a single message to multiple receivers without having to send the same message more than once. The receivers can pick and choose what information they want to receive by subscribing to particular administrators… Sounds a lot like Twitter.
One of the only differences between the two systems is that “IRIS” can transfer across email, text messaging, and voicemail, while Twitter cannot utilize voicemail (yet). The concept being challenged is the basic idea of unifying different messaging systems. So Twitter may, in fact, be guilty.
