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Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games
- fidotron 2y agoThe Register link to the patents in question: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/ibm_patent_win_zynga/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/ibm_patent_win_zynga/
- kristianp 2y agoThe two patents ruled to be infringed: '849, that patent introduced "novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy," '719 patent designed to "improve the performance" of Internet apps by "reducing network communication delays." That patent describes technology that improves an app's performance by "reducing the number of required interactions between client and server,"
- jadbox 2y agoThe '719 patent seems remarkably broad to me. Like, most games use a kind of dual sync state resolution, right? https://patents.google.com/patent/US7702719B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7702719B1/en