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While searching for the actual battery patent, I ran across the modular data center patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=7TypAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract http

While searching for the actual battery patent, I ran across the modular data center patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=7TypAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract http://www.google.com/patents?id=7TypAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a... and also this power supply research paper abstract: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub32467.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub32467.html I was also surprised at some of the patents awarded. While the claims were very specific, the ideas were very generic, such as mobile payments via cell phone. Take a look for yourself: http://www.google.com/patents?zoom=4&q=inassignee%3Agoogle&btnG=Search+Patents http://www.google.com/patents?zoom=4&q=inassignee%3Agoog... If anyone finds the battery/server patent, I would be extremely interested.

wallflower 18y ago
Not filed under Google but under Exaflop LLC (one quintillion floating point operations per second) [hat tip to: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/15/google-files-patent-on-ups-architecture/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/15/googl...] Patent application: 20080030078 "Each UPS includes a battery selectively connectable across a DC bus, and a AC-to-DC rectifier that converts an AC input voltage to a single output voltage on the DC bus. The regulated DC bus voltage may be close to the battery's fully charged voltage..." http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080030078%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080030078&RS=DN/20080030078 http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
Semiapies 18y ago
Pretty much every patent is a specific implementation of a generic idea.