VoloMedia Granted Patent For Inventing Podcasting
VoloMedia, a maker of ad-serving technology for downloaded media, has been granted a U.S. patent for podcasting, prompting a number of technologists to question the company’s claims to the widely used Web technology.The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Patent 7,568,213, entitled “Method for Providing Episodic Media,” this week. VoloMedia applied for the patent in November 2003, which the company claimed was nearly a year before the start of podcasting.
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