The Internet telephony service, Skype could be days. As Ebay has recognized, the company that bought the firm in 2005 by about 2,600 million dollars, there are serious problems for the survival of the known system. The problem would be the licensing service. When Ebay bought Skype, it was not made with the code that was programmed with the application. Therefore, the company that owns it (Jolt) has sued the auction site from misuse of technology. Thus, not finding a solution, Ebay should put closure to an application currently used by more than 480 million people around the world.

Following the submission of quarterly data, Ebay has launched a clear message to the users of Skype. The popular system of communications in the network could be closed in the coming months.

The origin of the problem dates back to the time of its acquisition in 2005. Then, the auction site bought the firm Skype for approximately 2,600 million dollars. However, the price of the sale did not include control over the key code that allowed the system to work, developed by the company Jolt.

Therefore, the two companies reached an agreement through the payment of a license. However, the revelation of the secret code of Skype by eBay in other trials in the U.S. parallel to discontent from the creators of the system that launched a war against the portal for having violated the terms of the license.

Thus, it is planned to hold a trial between the companies in the middle of next year. Thus, while the process is resolved, Ebay is working to develop alternative technologies setback to solve the problem.

Therefore, Ebay warns: “The loss of existing licenses or the inability to maintain them could lead to a decline in service quality or the loss of it until it could develop, identify, license and integrate equivalent or alternative technologies appropriate.

eBay might have to put closure to the Skype not having a key patent for the operation of the VoIP service, a license that is still in the hands of the original founders.

The relationship between eBay and Skype continues to sour. The auction portal, which owns Skype for four years and in negotiations to dispose of the company in 2011, might be forced to close due to an issue of patents.

As published Channel Insider, when eBay bought Skype, the creators had Jolt Limited through a patent for key technology for voice over IP service. Apparently, the payment of 2,600 million U.S. dollars did not include the patent, but set a licensing agreement for use of payment that eBay could offer the service.

Recent rifirrafes between eBay and Jolt Limited have pushed it to withdraw the license to use, leading to the closure of the service if eBay fails to alternative technology.

The founders of the internet calls the world’s most famous, Skype, will have played well to the kids on eBay. The online auction company that bought Skype in 2005, gaining the rights to use this tool. However, the code that was programmed with this application is the property of Jolt, a subsidiary company that still belongs to the creators of the program. A soap opera between companies reveals an attempt to gain the business of Skype.

And the founders of the invention now want to be back with the company. And it appears that eBay does not see it all clear to continue to pay, has been doomed to a demand from Jolt for misuse of their technology. While the trial is resolved, the owner of Skype is now working at top speed in the reconstruction of the architecture of the program before it reaches the date of a trial, held under current conditions, the balance inclined to the creators of the service messaging.

The timing of the lawsuit will be in mid-2010, and some people seem very unlikely that the current owners of Skype may have made to the duties then. The more cautious voices argue the matter in complete breakdown: proper adaptation of this service it seems that by creating a new one from scratch rather than reprogram the existing one. After all, the software and the management of Skype is based on a code that is now owned by Jolt.

At this time, the consequences of the disappearance of Skype as a service as we know it (including its image and the user base) would amount to millions of dollars, whereas the number of Internet users who use this program exceeds 480 million, amount that even the folds of a service as popular as Facebook. But the corporate soap opera has only just begun …