Thursday, March 15, 2012

The 10 patents listed in Yahoo vs Facebook suit.

US Patent 7599935  Control for enabling a user to preview display of selected content based on another user’s authorization level (Filed 2005, Issued 2009)

US Patent 5983227 Dynamic Page Generator  (Filed 1997, Issued 1999)

US Patent 7454509 Online playback system with community bias  (Filed 2001, Issued 2008)

US Patent 7747648 World modeling using a relationship network with communication channels to entities (Filed 2005, Issued 2010) 

US Patent 7406501 System and method for instant messaging using an e-mail protocol (Filed 2003, Issued 2008) 

US Patent 6907566 US Patent 7100111 and US Patent 7373599  Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage (Filed 1999, Issued 2005) 

US Patent 7668861 System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a network (Filed 2007, Issued 2010) 

US Patent 7269590 Method and system for customizing views of information associated with a social network user (Filed 2004, Issued 2007)

Yahoo’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, is reportedly the one driving this aggressive strategy, with many of the company’s long time tech staff opposed to this aggressive use of Yahoo’s patent portfolio.

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