Cisco Patents the Triple Play

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 13, 2006 @02:46PM from the there-goes-the-old-ball-game dept.

Aditi.Tuteja writes, "Cisco was recently granted a patent on a 'system and method for providing integrated voice, video and data to customer premises over a single network.' Sound a lot like 'triple play?' Yes it is. The patent, which was filed back in 2000, describes a system that would allow consumers to receive all of their home services through one service provider instead of two or three. The patent's wording seems broad enough to cover nearly all existing implementations of triple play, and some are worried that Cisco will try to wield the newly granted patent against such providers as AT&T and Comcast. If such a thing were to happen, progress on AT&T's Project Lightspeed could slow even more."

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Gillette Mach3 meet Schick Quattro!! by bughouse26 · 2006-10-13 15:07 · Score: 3, Funny

I call dibbs on creating a patent for opening 4 simultaneous TCP/IP sockets!
1. Re:Gillette Mach3 meet Schick Quattro!! by KillerCow · 2006-10-13 16:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I call dibbs on creating a patent for opening 4 simultaneous TCP/IP sockets!
  
  Sure thing dude, but I just filed for doing it with one click.
  
  Ohhhhhh. You got served!
Triple play? by JFMulder · 2006-10-13 15:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I prefer to call it "Ménage à trois". :)
Re:Not in a million years by wish+bot · 2006-10-13 16:00 · Score: 4, Funny

HTTP, FTP, and SMTP down one wire?!
Jesus - no one told me I didn't need to get all these tubes.

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