MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000--Defending its widely deployed MediaCluster digital video server platform, SeaChange International, Inc. SEAC today filed suit in Delaware against nCUBE Corp. for patent infringement. The suit alleges that nCUBE, with the advent of its MediaCube-4 video server, infringes SeaChange's patented and highly strategic MediaCluster technology. SeaChange was relegated to this action after attempts to
otherwise explore the matter.
Further, to prevent the impending effects of this violation, SeaChange has today requested a preliminary injunction to immediately halt nCUBE's distribution and
development of MediaCube-4 until nCUBE discontinues the use of methods invented, patented and marketed by SeaChange for MediaCluster.
SeaChange's MediaCluster is a unique digital video server architecture comprising computer software and hardware to provide a proven fault-tolerant and highly economical means for the storage and simultaneous delivery of multiple broadcast-quality digital video streams. Among MediaCluster's principal benefits is that only one copy of video material is stored, thereby dramatically reducing storage requirements while guaranteeing the availability
of all video at any output rate. Further, storage and service bandwidth capacity can be increased while the system is on air, recording and playing video streams.
U.S. Patent No. 5,862,312 was granted for MediaCluster on Jan. 19, 1999. The application for this patent was filed in October 1995. Introduced to market in 1996, MediaCluster is the foundation of multiple brands of SeaChange digital
video server systems that today deliver millions of commercials, movies, television programs and other video for broadcast, cable, Internet and telecommunications operations all over the world. Products that leverage the MediaCluster video server technology include the SeaChange Movie System,
introduced in 1996; the SeaChange GuestServe Network System, introduced in 1997; the SeaChange Broadcast MediaCluster, introduced in 1998; the SeaChange Interactive Television System, introduced in 1998; and the VIP
Streamer, introduced in 1999. |
