Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Google employees' wireless patents published | CNET News.com

Three new patents from Google signal their move into advertising in the wireless market..

Google employees' wireless patents published | CNET News.com: "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published three wireless-related patents filed by Google employees as the search giant seeks to delve deeper into the wireless market.

The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service....

Patent application No. 20060058019 seeks to develop a system for dynamically modifying the appearance of browser screens on a client device when connecting to a wireless access point. Under the patent, the browser's appearance would be modified to reflect the brand associated with the wireless access-point provider...

No. 20060059044 and No. 20060059043, cover ads based on wireless access points and wireless access at a reduced rate, respectively."

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