Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC v. Directv, LLC, No. 15-1845 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 23, 2016)

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I Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC, is the owner of U.S. P a- tent No. 7,970,379 (“the ’379 patent”). The patent con- tains two independent claims, one a system claim and the other a method claim. The claims are directed to stream- ing regional broadcast signals to cellular telephones located outside the region served by the regional broa d- caster. Representative claim 1 of the ’379 patent , the independent system claim, recites as follows: 1.