One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. These pilot programs are meant to explore differing implementations of the NSTIC and how they work, then...
Interestingly, the company was granted a patent for a “Computer-implemented method and system for conducting a search of electronically stored information,” in July this year. The patent describes an “interactive targeting rule editor,” which...
District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. Google has been given clarification and a deadline of Friday to...
Those 300 additional patents and patent applications will be non-exclusive to Microsoft, however. The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman and...
According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.
While BT has a claim on 5,600 patents and patent applications, only six of those patents are coming into play for these allegations. Apple has won a major patent victory over HTC and Android as the U.S.
There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the technology outlined in the patent, as applications are filed all the time. Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system...
As a result, current functionality and future business plans shouldn’t be inferred from our patent applications. Despite Facebook’s denial that the data is used to target consumers with advertisements, the user data they’re collecting and the...
Described as “an inside peek at how Google groups keywords by concept,” the initial Google Sets patent filing from April 2003 was the brainchild of two rockstar engineers from the early days at Google.
The Multi-Billion Patent Claims Google, however, stated that all the cited patents are either entirely invalid or that an associated license for the patent in question had been acquired. That includes Android, whose Dalvik software (an element of...
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In other words, Cygnus' patent describes features similar to those of Windows Explorer and Apple's Finder—these applications use scaled-down previews to represent the actual documents being browsed by users.
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent Users are now allowed to download applications designed specifically for the device. Location-based social networking is projected to generate worldwide revenues of $3.3 billion by 2013, according to ABI...
Posted by Frank Watson Jul 10, 2008 David Utter over at WebProNews has written an insightful piece on the possibility Microsoft wants Yahoo mainly for the old Overture patents it holds, in particular patent 361.
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. This time Yahoo is applying for a patent for meal search technology.
Google Patent Details Mobile Search Plans Gears for Windows Mobile and Android already have location APIs, and Google says they expect to see the My Location API implemented on the Apple iPhone applications as early as this month, as Apple launches...
Google Responds to Search Engine Patent Lawsuit, Marketing Pilgrim SEW Experts: Free Big Brand Marketing and Other Facebook ProblemsEven successful third-party applications don't generate a dime for Facebook, leaving the social platform cut out of...
Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related...
Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea From the SEW blog: Organic Search SEW Experts: On Page vs. Off Page SEOOff-page SEO factors are getting all the attention these days.
