Packet8 has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,394,803 entitled "Distributed Local Telephony Gateway." The patent issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on July 1, 2008. The patent relates to IP communication systems and, more particularly, to broadband telephony services having distributed local gateways.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8's Packet8 has been awarded 73 United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications, processing and storage technologies.