Could someone who knows about network engineering give a quick summary on whether the claims make any sense? I do mostly front-end and to me they look like "that's just how the Internet works".
Good call. It's broad enough to catch DNSSEC in a suit. I double up on claim to buy this company given its patents are on Internet foundations. Too risky to leave to trolling.
The patents to me seem broad enough to cover DNSSEC, but in intent they discuss a DNS proxy that intercepts non-standard TLDs like '.scom', '.snet', etc. and routes them over a VPN. Interesting idea, but I don't see how iMessage infringes on it.
It's probably the first patent, which seems to cover... a ton of things. Seems like the first patent could potentially cover everything from MPTCP to VPNs to any P2P network to BitTorrent to certain IPv6 transition mechanisms to certain kinds of MPLS routing to...
There is almost certainly prior art, but it can be very hard to challenge a patent if the troll has already notched a few victories.
If that patent really is this broad then its very very dangerous to the Internet. It could in theory shut down dozens and dozens of things, including some very fundamental ones that are core parts of Internet infrastructure.
