VocalTec Announces a US Patent for Transmitting Packets
December 19, 2006
VocalTec announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has informed VocalTec that it has been granted with a US patent number 7,142,506: "Method and apparatus for transmitting packets". This patent allows for adjusting the voice codec or bit-rate used based on observed delay and jitter. — With all due respect to Vocaltel, which did open up doors for VoIP to grow, how can they be granted a patent on technology that existed as far back as at least 1995?