This episode presents an opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a patent dispute involving Akamai Technologies, Inc. and MediaPointe, Inc. The appeal centered on patents describing an "intelligent distribution network" for streaming media, with the appellate court affirming the lower court’s final judgment on all contested issues. The court upheld the invalidity of multiple claims containing terms like "optimal" or "best" because the specification lacked the necessary objective boundaries or clear guidance for weighing various performance metrics such as latency and hops. For the remaining asserted claims, the court affirmed the grant of summary judgment of noninfringement to Akamai, finding that MediaPointe failed to show that Akamai's system met a key limitation requiring the management center to receive an initial request for media content. This failure stemmed from evidence showing that Akamai's component only received a DNS query, which the court determined was not the requested content message required by the claim language.

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