On December 7, 2015, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap transferred ZitoVault, LLC’s case against Amazon and two of its cloud services customers to the Western District of Washington (2:16-cv-00027). The NPE had originally sued Amazon, Bazaarvoice, and Gearbox Software in March 2015 in the Eastern District of Texas (6:15-cv-00152), asserting a single patent (6,484,257) that generally relates to servicing a number of cryptographic sessions in parallel.  ZitoVault’s complaint accuses Amazon of infringing the ‘257 patent through several of its cloud computing services, including Amazon Web Services. The complaint further alleges that Bazaarvoice and Gearbox use the accused Amazon services to collect, analyze, and optimize customer feedback related to online commerce.