"The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007"
Pretty clear to me. Encoding, data, security and encryption are all software issues, not hardware issues.
Software patents don't specifically patent software. They patent a machine implementation of an idea. The hardware you speak of needs some kind of control logic anyway. So it's covered either way.
Pretty clear to me. Encoding, data, security and encryption are all software issues, not hardware issues.