Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 177

"Mr. Cook, we want to talk about Taimicro."

Hearing Steve's voice on the phone, Cook immediately understood.

"Mr. Steve, what are your plans?"

"We need to unite, otherwise the Taiwei system will be a huge threat sooner or later. I believe Sydney doesn't want another powerful enemy!"

Of course Cook knows that Taiwei System has not invaded Sydney's mobile phones and computers, but no one can guarantee what will happen in the future.

Especially the terrible performance of the Taiwei system makes Cook terrified now.

"I agree to join forces, what is Mr. Steve going to do?"

"Very simple, patented!"

"can!"

Cook agreed, no matter how Sydney and Microsoft fell in love with each other in the past, they are highly consistent in front of this big right and wrong.

On the other hand, Leighton Angus of Google's company also has the same plan, and they are even more anxious than Microsoft.

Microsoft has retained two-thirds of the market share, while Android has lost two-thirds, so it is no wonder they are not in a hurry.

For Microsoft's proposal, the two sides hit it off.

Soon Microsoft, Google, Sydney, Nokia, Ericsson and other companies immediately reached an agreement to use patents to attack the Star Group.

As for whether Taiwei System has infringed their patents, "on the face of it" there must be.

Give a few examples.

Patent No. 5579517, long file name support.MS-DOS prior to version 5 only supported 11-character filenames (including extensions), so Microsoft invented a way to support both long and short filenames.

Friends who have used the DOS operating system should know that DOS will automatically shorten the file name of more than 11 characters, and replace part of it with ~ symbols. This patent is about this implementation.

Since the android system supports MicroSD (TF) cards in FAT format, the data stored on the card must support DOS long file names.

In other words, any device that supports the FAT format is restricted by this patent of Microsoft Corporation.

Also Patent No. 6621746, Flash Memory Erasing; Patent No. 6909910, Contact Creation and Update; Patent No. 7644376, System Status Monitoring and Notification System; and Patent No. 6370566, Initiating Scheduled Meeting Requests from Mobile Devices.

In particular patent number 5664133, pop-up context menu system.

The specific patent describes obtaining and displaying a series of commands in a pop-up menu for an object selected by the user.

This patent is estimated to be Microsoft's dragon-slaying knife, which prevents gods from killing gods, and Buddhas block and kill Buddhas.

There is also patent number 6578054, Incremental Synchronization.

A system and method for synchronizing multiple copies of data in a server and a client, by which incremental changes in one copy of data are identified, transmitted, and integrated to all other copies of data.

According to this patent description, Android's data synchronization function can be said to be wiped out.

Judging from the above patents owned by Microsoft, most of them should involve some basic functions that have been widely used in modern operating systems and have become breathing.

If you want to avoid Microsoft's patents, it means starting from scratch, which is a very sad thing for the entire computer industry.

This is only the patent of Microsoft. If you add Sydney, Google, Nokia, and Ericsson, I believe that no company can bypass their patent moat in the English language programming environment.

The five companies that quickly concluded the PY transaction appealed to the Shanghai court on August 8 that Zhongxing Group violated their patents.

其中微硬公司提出276件专利、谷哥231件专利、雪梨233件、诺基亚419件、爱立信142件。

There are a total of 1301 patents, and these patents are more or less used by Taiwei systems on the surface.

And asked Taiwei System to stop using their patents immediately, and at the same time compensate them 1301 billion US dollars. Obviously, these guys want to kill Taiwei System completely, and by the way, severely damage Galaxy Technology.

In order to create pressure from public opinion, the five companies spared no expense in hiring internet trolls, allowing them and public officials to spray the Star Group and Taiwei System on the Internet.

For a while, the Zhongxing Group hadn't responded to the lawsuit, and the Internet was full of gunpowder. Netizens who supported the Zhongxing Group and the Taiwei System, and the public knowledge of the Internet trolls, spat each other on each other.

Of course, large online media such as Penguin News, Netease News, and Bibo Express all chose to remain silent.

It's not because of their conscience, but because they are afraid of being settled by Qiuhou. It is still unknown who will win the battle between Zhongxing Group and Micro Hard Valley.

It is obviously irrational to stand in line at this time.

……

"Boss, we are ready." Ye Donghe said calmly.

"Well, let's have fun with them. Didn't Microsoft enforce a patch to ban Taiwei system? Let the Software Research Institute crack this forbidden patch, and we will make their system blind." Huang Haojie sneered.

Ye Donghe nodded. The Stars Group had expected this matter. It would be strange if Gu Gewei insisted that they didn't respond.

For patent lawsuits, and patent lawsuits in China, Zhongxing Group is not afraid of them.

Gu Ge Microsoft's patents may not be bypassed for English-language programs, but for Chinese-language programs, the two are fundamentally different.

Just like grilling with charcoal and grilling with an electric stove, both have the same function, but the technology to achieve it is different.

However, such things as functions cannot be patented. Is it possible that barbecues can also apply for patents?
It is obviously impossible. If this can be done, then there are too many things that can be patented in this world, such as eating and drinking, breathing air, walking, and writing.

What can be patented is not the function of grilling, but how to implement grilling, such as charcoal grilling, the specifications of charcoal, how to place it, what auxiliary materials need to be added, and so on.

The Taiwei system is developed based on the Chinese language, and even some patents that may involve appearance have been thoroughly sorted out by Zhongxing Group.

Under Zhong's filter, they wanted to sue Zhongxing Group for patent infringement. They were afraid that they didn't know how to write dead words.

This is also the confidence of Zhongxing Group, the two are different in terms of technology.

Of course, if it is French, German, or Russian, these alphabetic languages, Google Microhard and the others can still sue the other party.

Because English and French are similar, they are equivalent to being born to the same parents. In terms of language genes, their basic framework is the same.

But Chinese and English are completely different, because Chinese is a two-dimensional language, while English is a one-dimensional language.

In this way, it is impossible for the Chinese language and the English language to use the same framework and encoding when realizing the same function.

So Gu Gewei hardened them, and this time they made a fatal mistake. They ignored the possibility of Zhongxing Group adopting Chinese language, or it was the arrogance and prejudice of Westerners that solidified their thinking.

Soon Zhongxing Group announced its response to the lawsuit on its official website, and at the same time appealed to the Pengcheng Court, suing Google and Microhard for falsely accusing Zhongxing Group and causing economic losses to Zhongxing Group, demanding them to pay 1302 billion dollars in compensation.

For a while, the two sides were facing each other, tit for tat.

Even domestic well-known Internet companies were surprised by Zhongxing Group, so many patents are too micro-system to be infringed to some extent.

So why does Zhongxing Group have the confidence to go head-to-head with Google? What kind of confidence gives Zhongxing Group the courage to sue the other party?
These questions puzzled Penguin, Ali, and Qiandu.

And a group of people who eat melons eat melons online, watching the patent alliance of Star Wars against Google and Microsoft.

(End of this chapter)