Wednesday, October 31, 2007

8X* gets Another VoIP Patent , U.S. Patent No. 7,289,491 for an arrangement and method of Internet telephony(?)

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 8x8, Inc. , originator of the Packet8 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video communication services for business and residential customers, today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,289,491 for an arrangement and method of Internet telephony. The patent issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 30, 2007.

The invention covered by the patent relates generally to an arrangement which includes a telephone and an interface unit which interfaces the telephone to both a standard switched telephone communications network and an Internet communications network.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8 has been awarded seventy (70) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications and storage technologies.

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