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Broadband iTV sued Amazon in the Western District of Texas alleging patent infringement of five patents. Amazon moved for summary judgment, arguing that all asserted claims were patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The district court granted Amazon’s motion, finding the claims were directed to an abstract idea and the patents failed to provide an inventive step that transformed that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention. Broadband iTV timely appeals. For the following reasons, we affirm.

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