Polycom, Inc. — commonly "Polycom," now branded Poly — is a US communications-technology company incorporated in December 1990 by Jeff Rodman and Brian Hinman and headquartered at 6001 America Center Drive, San Jose, California. It was publicly traded on NASDAQ (ticker PLCM) until taken private by Siris Capital in 2016, then acquired by Plantronics in a $2 billion deal completed July 2018; the combined company rebranded as Poly. HP Inc. acquired Poly in 2022 ($3.3 billion), and Polycom now operates within HP's hybrid-work/Poly business. Historical scale: Polycom reported roughly 3,800 employees and ~$1.4–1.5 billion revenue around 2013; Poly-era filings cited ~$1.7 billion revenue. Current standalone headcount/revenue figures are not separately disclosed because the entity is a subsidiary.
Operations. Polycom designs and sells unified-communications and collaboration endpoints and infrastructure: conference phones (SoundStation/Trio), open-SIP desktop phones (SoundPoint, VVX), video conferencing endpoints and cameras (HDX, RealPresence Group Series, Studio), video/voice infrastructure software (RealPresence Clarise, RMX bridges, device-management services), plus support and professional services. The broader Poly portfolio added enterprise and consumer headsets (including the RIG gaming brand). It is an operating company, not an NPE.
Litigation posture. Case data shows 0 plaintiff suits and 1 defendant suit — consistent with an operating company defending against third-party assertion, not a patent enforcer. The single tracked matter is Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Hulu et al. (JPML MDL No. 2845), arising from the underlying Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Polycom, Inc., No. 1:17-cv-02692 (D. Colo., filed Oct. 2017). Realtime Adaptive Streaming is a Realtime Data affiliate that Unified Patents describes as a well-known NPE; the asserted patents (e.g., '046, '535, '477, '907) cover bandwidth-sensitive data compression tied to H.264 video standards. The JPML denied MDL centralization on August 1, 2018, so Polycom's case proceeded separately.