Crossover: 2014

Chapter 106 How many more games will be developed?
At 6:21 a.m. on June 8, BJ time, Beiyu City.

As soon as Lin Hui got up, he saw the notification on his mobile phone.

The few patents he had previously purchased on the official website of the US National Patent Office have the following.

It actually allowed him to successfully acquire three patents at once.

Although these patents are not considered major patents related to the national economy and the people's livelihood.

But Lin Hui was quite surprised to be able to get three patents at once.

Lin Hui originally thought that Lao/America would be particularly wary of the Chinese acquiring patents.

It seems that it is worthy of decadent capitalism, and everything is easy to talk about when the money is in place.

Of course, this may have a lot to do with the fact that the relationship between the rabbits is not as tense as it was a few years ago.

After logging into the official website of the United States Patent Office, Lin Hui found that there were indeed three more patents in the personal patent column of his account interface.

And Lin Hui's attention was immediately attracted by the patent "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison".

(ps: ... I translated the patent Chinese, I always feel that the translation is a bit strange

A New Approach to Textual Judgment Screening and Comparison)

This patent Lin Hui has been on my mind for a long time.

To be honest, although Lin Hui bought a lot of patents on the patent website.

But other patents are basically used as a foil for this patent or as an interference item.

Only the patent "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison" is what he really needs at present.

Such a patent with all kinds of messy handling fees actually cost Lin Hui only 75 US dollars.

Although this price is already about RMB 400 million.

But for Lin Hui, this was a huge bargain.

Look at it from the perspective of people in this time and space.

"A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison" may just be an ordinary patent used to identify original texts.

But Lin Hui knew that things were not as simple as they seemed.

The model presented in this patent can almost be said to be the predecessor of the neural network discriminative model that appeared in 16/17.

I remember that this patent was selected as one of the 18 most valuable patents in machine learning by a machine learning magazine published by the University of California, Berkeley in 10.

If it is delayed for two or three years, if the algorithm patent "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison" is sold separately

A price of $200-250 million may also be possible.

However, Lin Hui did not intend to sell the patent either.

This is not the intention of Lin Hui to purchase this patent.

The greatest value of this patent to Lin Hui lies in the fact that it relies on this patent
Lin Hui can reasonably complete the "improvement" of the second and third generation text summarization technology and the "breakthrough" of the fourth and fifth generation text summarization technology.

The reason why both improvements and breakthroughs are in quotation marks is because for Lin Hui, the above-mentioned technologies can be easily obtained.

The most wonderful thing is that "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison" is actually a global patent.

This will undoubtedly save Lin Hui from a lot of extra trouble.

It can be said that after purchasing this patent, it basically filled the last gap in the barrier of generative text summarization built by Lin Hui.

In the next two to three years, it will be difficult for other technical teams to challenge Linhui's hegemony in the field of text summarization.

As for what will happen after two or three years, no one dares to guarantee it, but at least in a short period of time, Lin Hui can sit back and relax in terms of text summarization.

As for the two patents that were settled by the way, although they are also patents on the content representation of automatic text summarization.

But for the time being, it is of no use to Lin Hui.

The other two patents cost Lin Hui a total of 90 U.S. dollars including miscellaneous expenses.

But it's not a big problem, it's not a waste.

At present, Linhui has a total of four overseas patents, including the generative text summarization algorithm patent and a new method algorithm patent for text judgment, screening and comparison.

If two of these patents both prove to be of great value.

Then it will be difficult for the other two patents not to be noticed.

Even if Lin Hui doesn't sell it, someone will beg Lin Hui to express willingness to buy it at a high price.

It's not Lin Hui's nonsense, there is a saying that a rising tide lifts all boats.

(It’s so famous that you can easily make millions of yuan by just issuing a paper straw patent, sour)

Buying three patents cost Lin Hui $165 million (the balance on the 0010 card has also become $2940 million)
But now Lin Hui basically doesn't have to worry too much about money.

His income is far more than his output.

Still, unnecessary expenses can be avoided.

The patent acquisition on the US patent website has achieved its goal.

For other patent forest ash, all acquisitions were cancelled.

As for whether it will be misunderstood by the outside world?
Lin Hui hopes that the outside world will have some strange associations.

……

9:30 minutes.

Lin Hui, who had just finished breakfast, received a call from Huang Jing.

Huang Jing claimed on the phone that their group had arrived in Beiyu City.

And settled down at Beiyu International Hotel.

Huang Jing only called Lin Hui yesterday afternoon to say that she would come to Beiyu City, and they came here this morning.

Lin Hui guessed that they should have flown here overnight, after all, it is still a long way from Shanghai to the Northern Territory.

Even if they came by plane, they should have changed planes in the imperial capital to get here so quickly.

Although Huang Jing did not explain the number of their party on the phone.

But Lin Hui estimated that there should be at least 6 people.

Follow the normal contract signing process.

Camera assistants and legal assistants are definitely indispensable.

Important contract writers and financial personnel are also indispensable when dealing with large sums of money.

And Huang Jing also told Lin Hui before that it should be a higher-ranking person to discuss the content of the exclusive agreement with Lin Hui.

In other words, Huang Jing and his group should have a not-so-low-level leader in addition to assisting the law and recording the finances.

And it seems reasonable for a not-so-low-level head to have an assistant.

However, Lin Hui feels that even if the level is not too low, it should not be a big boss level.

If it was really a big boss, how could he condescend to come to Beiyu City?

Maybe in the next few years.

But now it is 14 years, neither Microsoft nor Apple pay enough attention to the Chinese market.

……

As for the number of people and the composition of Apple's staff, Lin Hui's estimate is pretty good.

Lin Hui arrived at the meeting room on the 10rd floor of Beiyu International Hotel around 23 o'clock.

A total of 8 people from Apple's group came here.

What Lin Hui didn't expect was that Apple's 8 people were all women.

Uh, it's outrageous. As expected of a big company, some unicorn Internet companies have a bit of difficulty getting together 8 women.

Among the eight people, Lin Hui knew Huang Jing and He Yuhui.

Of course, the so-called acquaintance is just dealing with them before.

Needless to say, Huang Jing had often contacted Lin Hui on the phone.

And He Yuhui had previously cooperated with Lin Hui on audio-visual software.

However, Huang Jing and He Yuhui were not present during the formal meeting.

This should be due to some avoidance rules.

Big companies have a lot of weird rules.

Even in the face of 6 strangers, it doesn't matter.

You must know that Lin Hui was still working in a large Internet company just over 20 days ago.

Dealing with these people is not very strange to Lin Hui.

Although some scenes before the formal negotiation were rather cumbersome, the real negotiation is not very troublesome.

It's just an exclusive agreement for a game like "FLAPPPY BIRD" on the Apple platform.

It wasn't too complicated, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

Apple will monopolize the game "FLAPPY BIRD" for 6 months from the date of conclusion of the contract, and the contract amount is 150 million US dollars.

As for the contract amount of 150 million US dollars, it is not too outrageous.

Lin Hui remembered that the DLC of "FLAPPPY BIRD" alone brought in more than US$400 million in revenue for Apple.

After the exclusive agreement is reached, within 6 months, Apple will not be able to remove the game "FLAPPY BIRD" without reason.

And it is necessary to give a relatively good recommendation for this game during holidays as appropriate.

And if Lin Hui continues to update the DLC in the future, the profit will be shared by Lin Hui and AppStore at a ratio of 85%: 15%.

During Apple's exclusive period, some infringements involving other platforms will be countered by Apple's legal team...

As for the details of the contract, it goes without saying.

Lin Hui has drawn up similar contracts before.

With a 14-year contract, it is still a bit difficult to stumble a 21-year-old who has received countless legal training.

All in all, everything went well.

Although it was signed by China, it is clearly a global agreement in terms of contractual relationship.

That is to say, there is no need to consider paying taxes when it comes to income in a short period of time.

As for how to deal with the issue of paying taxes in the future, it is a big deal to hire more tax officers.

In short, tax evasion/tax evasion is impossible, and tax evasion is impossible in this life.

Not long after the contract was concluded, the first payment of USD 25 was credited to the account (the balance on the 0010 card also became USD 2965 million).

After reaching this exclusive agreement, the negotiation is not over yet.

Apple also asked Lin Hui if he planned to sign a letter of intent involving future cooperation.

Although only a letter of intent
Although negotiators on Apple's side are subtle

But Lin Hui vaguely felt that this so-called letter of intent was the real purpose of these people from Apple's trip.

What kind of cooperation is the so-called letter of intent for future cooperation?

Could it be that he is asked to develop a few more games?
Uh, there are many games in Lin Hui's mind, but there are really not many games that can be easily handled by one person.

Some games can be easily played by one person.

But changing to the present time and space node lacks the foundation for success.

Take the game of jumping, for example.

It's really not that hard to develop.

However, it was largely due to the popularity of small programs that Jumpy Jump became popular back then.

There are no small programs in this space-time now.

Lin Hui gave up his wild thinking.

Since Apple is willing to talk, let's talk.

Lin Hui also really wants to know what kind of cooperation Apple wants to talk about in the so-called cooperation intention?
(End of this chapter)