Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Broadcom Corp. et al.
- Docket:
- 1:18-cv-01048
- Court:
- District of Colorado
- Filed:
- 2018-05-04
Patents:7386046
Additional district court action reported as involving the '046 patent.
Defendant
Broadcom Ltd.
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- 2018
- Top venue
- D. Colorado
- 1 case
Company profile
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Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO; formerly Broadcom Limited and, before that, Avago Technologies Limited) is a public semiconductor and infrastructure-software company headquartered in San Jose, California. Its lineage runs to HP Associates (1961) and to Avago's 2009 IPO; Avago acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016 and took the Broadcom name, then redomiciled from Singapore to the US in April 2018. The entity named in the case data, "Broadcom Ltd.," is the Singapore-incorporated parent used during that period; Broadcom Corporation was its California subsidiary. As of fiscal 2025 (ended Nov. 2, 2025), Broadcom reported roughly 33,000 employees and $63.9 billion in net revenue, with a market capitalization above $1 trillion.
Broadcom operates two reportable segments. Semiconductor Solutions supplies custom AI accelerators (XPUs), Ethernet switching/routing (Tomahawk), optical interconnect, PCIe and SerDes products for data centers, plus RF front-end filters, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity, touch and inductive-charging chips for smartphones, and cable/DOCSIS, set-top-box, storage-controller and industrial/automotive components. Infrastructure Software covers VMware Cloud Foundation (private cloud and virtualization), Symantec enterprise cybersecurity, and CA mainframe and enterprise software. It is a fabless designer using foundry partners.
Patent-litigation posture: Broadcom is an operating company, not an assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears once, as a defendant (0 cases as plaintiff). That single matter is Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Broadcom Corporation et al., No. 1:18-cv-01048 (D. Colo., filed May 4, 2018) — a plaintiff-friendly venue choice, though not the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC (a Texas LLC with a Tyler, Texas address), is listed as a non-practicing entity by Stanford's NPE database and is related to the Realtime Data/IXO patent family.
The case asserted three patents — U.S. 7,386,046 ("Bandwidth Sensitive Data Compression and Decompression"), 8,934,535 and 9,769,477 (video and audio data storage and distribution) — targeting data-compression technology. It reflects the typical pattern of an NPE suing a large operating company over acquired, inventor-originated compression patents, rather than any two-way assertion campaign by Broadcom.