New criteria for restricting the scope of what the US Patent Office considers patent-worthy poses a threat to numerous software patents, including Google's famed PageRank.
Technology from Google submitted to the US Patent Office shows how they can tell when someone viewing a video skipped an ad.
Everyone thinks Microsoft's purchase of Fast Search & Transfer is about enterprise search. We thought there could be more to the deal. Here's a stream of consciousness for you to consider.
Company CEO Jerry Yang told CES 2008 attendees Yahoo Mail would become a much more socially aware application, able to tap into multiple social networks.
"Recognizing Text In Images" served as the main idea for a Google patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
I think before the robots take over everything and use us for batteries, it will appear that humans have hyper-evolved into mechanically enhanced super-sapiens. But that's really just to build false confidence in us. A recent Microsoft patent application is perhaps the next step toward that digitally created human battery soup dream.
Devices like the iPhone could be virtual baristas and sandwich makers, if an Apple patent application for placing orders at places like Starbucks and Panera receives approval.
Google may have thought they saw the last of HyperPhrase Technologies and their patent infringement suit over AdSense and AutoLink. That would be wrong.
Since there isn't an official definition of what constitutes a snippet, Google engineers have patented the way the search engine builds snippets for its results.
eBay's potential damage payment to MercExchange over a patent infringement case hasn't dimmed eBay's hopes for the appeal process.
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