Google is absolutely serious about strengthening the company’s portfolio. The company just announced that it has bought a large number of patents to add to its growing portfolio of patents. According to a report published by SEO by The Sea, Google has bought 188 granted patents as well as 29 patents with pending applications from IT company IBM. The purchase of the patents were officially completed last December 30, 2011.
Google’s purchase of the 217 patents now gives the company the ability to use or take advantage of technologies applied in a wide range of fields – from telecommunications, mobile networks and even blade servers.
Among the patents that Google recently acquired are:
- Mobile Wireless Device Adaptation Based On Abstracted Contectual Situation Of User Using Near-Field Communications And Information Collectors (US Patent # 7729689)
- Customizing And Distributing Advertisments To Mobile Devices On A Communication Network (US Patent # 8024223)
- System And Method For Generating High-Function Browser Widgets With Full Addressability (US Patent # 7269792)
- Using Semantic Networks To Develop A Social Network (US Patent # 7865592)
- Voice Based Keyword Search Algorithm (US Patent # 7809564)
There are no exact details regarding the exact amount Google shelled out for purchasing the patents, but the company has been gobbling up patents since losing almost 6,000 different patents in a patent auction Nortel held last June 2011. Google initially bought 1030 patents from IBM in July, then made a $12.5 billion deal with Motorola for 17,000 patents. It again purchased patents from IBM last September, which amounted to 1023 patents.
Originally posted on January 5, 2012 @ 11:21 am