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Google Wireless Patents Published

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-onto-the-aethernet dept.

Ian wrote to mention a ZDNet article about several patents on wireless technology held by Google employees. From the article: "The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service. Google, which receives the bulk of its revenue from advertisers, is seeking to expand its potential advertising base by moving further into the wireless market."

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  1. How many patents do they have? by truthsearch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does anyone know how many patents google has? And how many patent applications they've filed? How many are hardware and how many software? I tried googling for it and (ironically?) found no answers.

    We know how many patents Microsoft has and that they apply for an average of 10 per week (at last count). So I'm curious how Google compares.

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    1. Re:How many patents do they have? by will_die · · Score: 3, Informative

      By the number assigned to them they have 15.