The complaint
The case is Pay As You Go, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-03849 (N.D. Tex., Dallas Division), filed November 3, 2026, ECF No. 1 (37 pages). The complaint demands a jury trial. Pay As You Go, a Wyoming limited liability company, alleges it is the assignee of all right, title and interest in U.S. Patent 7,013,127. RingCentral is alleged, on information and belief, to be a Delaware corporation with a regular and established place of business in Dallas, Texas.
What the patent covers
U.S. Patent 7,013,127, titled Systems and Methods for Employing "Pay-As-You-Go" Telecommunication Services, issued March 14, 2006. Claim 1 recites a method for affecting payment of telecommunication services: monitoring a user's use of the services at regular time intervals; communicating the results to a telecommunication services provider, which processes them and communicates processed results to the user; and receiving a payment from the user obtained from a transaction in which the payment is received at a point-of-sale together with an account identifier, data indicative of the transaction is received by the provider from the point-of-sale, and an amount equal to the payment is received by the provider from the point-of-sale proprietor. The complaint asserts claim 1 and argues that the claim is directed to a specific technical solution. (Compl. paras. 9, 16, 27 to 45; U.S. Patent 7,013,127 claim 1.)
What the lawsuit alleges
Pay As You Go alleges, on information and belief, that RingCentral directly infringed claim 1 in Texas and elsewhere in the United States by performing the claimed steps through its usage-based (Pay-per-Usage) plan on the RingEX monetization platform, which the complaint describes as a cloud-based business communications platform for voice, messaging and video. The complaint uses the RingCentral desktop and mobile applications and the RingEX Admin Portal as its examples of the monitoring and reporting steps. For the payment step, it points to an administrator paying the displayed bill in the RingCentral Billing Portal through a web-based billing interface or payment gateway, which it treats as the point-of-sale. It alleges that the asserted claim is a method claim to which the marking requirement does not apply. (Compl. paras. 47 to 53.)
The single count seeks damages of no less than a reasonable royalty. The prayer asks for a judgment that claim 1 has been infringed directly and indirectly, an accounting, and pre-judgment and post-judgment interest. (Compl. Count I; Prayer.)
What to watch next
Watch for issuance and service of summons and RingCentral's answer or other response. Any case can end at any time, including by settlement or voluntary dismissal.