Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by kernal on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:48PM
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Not only PC's. They tried to eliminate as many Android OEM's as possible by threating and launching patent litigation against them unless they paid up. The amount they demanded from each device was so ridiculous that you would have thought it was a payment to license the Android OS itself. Thugs will always be thugs.
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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by robertlagrant on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:04PM
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Well, I remember they had the FAT patent, which each Android device needed. Was it more than that?
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by kernal on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:17PM
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>The disclosure by MOFCOM on April 8, 2014 is a direct result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile handset unit as that deal required approval by the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of MOFCOM. The disclosed lists were part of the antitrust review.
>Of the two lists of Microsoft patents disclosed by MOFCOM2, one was a list of 310 patents which included 73 "standard-essential” patents (SEPs) for smartphones; 127 patents which are “implemented in Android”; and 110 “nonstandard-essential” patents and applications (non-SEPs). This list is referred to as Annex “B” by Microsoft.3 The second list is identical to the non-SEP set minus one issued patent, U.S. Patent No.7,111,039. This list is referred to as Annex “A”.
https://www.m-cam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/patently_ob...
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by robertlagrant on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:49PM
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> With this disclosure, China may be attempting to counteract Microsoft’s chokehold on the smartphone market
This is a very strange statement!
But thanks - appreciate the link. Not sure how the "media player in the taskbar" got in there, but that's patents for you.
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by kernal on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:58PM
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At the time Microsoft was strong-arming every Android OEM into paying royalty payments or else. Samsung paid more than a billion dollars to Microsoft in royalty payments for those questionable patents. I'd call that a chokehold.