Cloud Computing: IBM Breaks U.S. Patent Record
January 13, 2015
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
Once again, IBM received more patents than any other company in the world over the past year, and again Big Blue broke a record for the number of patents received in a year. IBM announced that it received a record 7,534 patents in 2014—marking the 22nd consecutive year that the company topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
IBM inventors earned an average of more than 20 patents per day in 2014, propelling the company to become the first to surpass more than 7,000 patents in a single year. The company’s record-setting 2014 patent output was led by more than 3,000 patents—40 percent of its annual total—covering a range of cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security inventions…
Over the past five years, IBM has more than doubled its annual output of patents within these strategic growth areas. IBM’s record-breaking 2014 patent output features thousands of inventions that will enable key cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security advancements, such as: U.S. Patent #8,661,132 – Enabling service virtualization in a cloud; U.S. Patent #8,639,559 – Brand analysis using interactions with search result items; U.S. Patent #8,832,847 – Coordinating data sharing among applications in mobile devices; U.S. Patent #8,706,648 – Assessing social risk due to exposure from linked contacts; U.S. Patent #8,869,274 – Identifying whether an application is malicious; and U.S. Patent #8,639,497: Natural language processing (NLP)…
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