8X8 gets another patent

8x8, Inc., the originator of the Packet8 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video communication services for business and residential customers, has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,289,491 for an arrangement and method of Internet telephony. 8x8 said the invention covered by the patent relates generally to an arrangement that includes a telephone and an interface unit which interfaces the telephone to both a standard switched telephone communications network and an Internet communications network.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8 has been awarded seventy (70) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications and storage technologies.

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