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Oracle
Oracle is a software company focused on databases.
On 12 August 2010, Oracle filed suit against Google for infringement of seven Java patents. (See Oracle v. Google (2010, USA))
Oracle is a licensee of Open Invention Network.[1]
Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in early 2010, including patents related to Java and the ZFS filesystem.
ATG patents acquired
- 7,809,661 Modeling and automatic filtering/tracking real-time events using dynamic relational bayesian networks
- 7,796,542 Method and apparatus for the prevention of unwanted calls in a callback system
- 7,603,415 Classification of electronic messages using a hierarchy of rule sets
- 7,466,689 Packet network based emergency backup telephone system
- 7,461,336 System and method for automatic mapping of hypertext input fields to software components
- 7,367,051 Automated methods and processes for establishing media streaming connections through firewalls and proxy servers and countermeasures thereto
- 7,353,189 Flexible order structure
- 7,315,518 Method and apparatus for the prevention of unwanted calls in a callback system
- 6,587,849 Method and system for constructing personalized result sets
- 6,574,790 System and method for interfacing and separating formatted content and program code
- 6,560,717 Method and system for load balancing and management
- 6,539,494 Internet server session backup apparatus
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Webpage and web service patents - discusses Oracle's "CMS" patent
- Sun Microsystems (an ex-company, bought by Oracle in 2009)
- NetApp's filesystem patents (used against ZFS, which Oracle now owns along with the ZFS patents)
External links
- Oracle's 1994 position was against swpats
- (from the 1994 USPTO software patent hearings)
- Someone tried to confirm their current policy in 2000, but seemingly failed to make contact with Oracle)
- View Oracle patents short article with links about Oracle's patents
- Oracle Corporation's Application, 19 Sep 2005, NIPC Law - about the UK Comptroller General rejecting a software patent