Adeia Sues Disney for Allegedly Violating its Video Streaming Patents tied to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+

Adeia has sued Disney in Delaware federal court for allegedly violating its video streaming patents. Adeia also recently acquired some patents from Brightcove (for $6M), which originated from Brightcove’s predecessor, Unicorn Media. Some of the six Adeia patents in dispute involve “dynamic manifest generation, “key frame detection and synchronization,” and “user interface” methods.

Adeia says AT&T, Verizon, Cox Communications, Comcast, DirecTV, DISH, Spectrum, Frontier, Google, Paramount, Sony, TCL, Roku, and Samsung have all licensed Adeia’s media patent portfolio. Adeia was the intellectual property licensing unit of TiVo owner Xperi before Xperi was spun off into an independent company in 2022.

The patents in dispute are 9,762,639; 8,280,987; 9,860,595; 10,165,324; 8,542,705; 9,235,428. You can read the 168-page filing here: https://lnkd.in/eiqGgznC