IBM received a record number of patents in 2014

Last year, IBM received the largest number of patents, namely, 7,534. Thus, IBM broke its own record set a year earlier. In addition, for the 22nd year in a row, the company ranks first in the US in the number of patents received.

On average, corporate employees received more than 20 patents per day (for all, not for one employee). The number of patents received by the company includes about 3 thousand advanced patents from the sphere of cloud technologies, data processing, social business, security.
“IBM's ongoing investment in research and development is key to our company's development, as we always strive to find new solutions in areas such as: cloud technologies, big data and analytics, mobile technologies, social business and security. IBM's leadership in the field of patents for more than two decades once again underlines our continued commitment to the strategy of scientific and technological research and innovation to solve the most complex problems faced by our customers and the global community, ”said Ginni Rometti, President Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBM.

As for the IBM Watson cognitive system and the corresponding project, the inventors of the company received more than 500 patents from the field of cognitive systems.
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Currently, the list of main patent holders in the United States (for 2014) is as follows:

1. IBM 7 534
2. Samsung 4 952
3. Canon 4 055
4. Sony 3,224
5. Microsoft 2,829
6. Toshiba 2 608
7. Qualcomm 2,590
8. Google 2,566
9. LG Electronics 2 122
10. Panasonic 2 095

The number of patents obtained by IBM in 2014 exceeds the total number of patents obtained by Accenture, Amazon, Google, HP, Intel and Oracle. More than 8,500 employees from 46 US states and 43 other countries received patents.
Among the most notable patents are the following:

US Patent No. 8661132: Virtualization of Services in the Cloud

The user himself sets the specification of the level of service and the provision of services in the field of information technology. The specification is shown as an IT deployment plan. Resources are allocated according to a specific plan.

US Patent No. 8874638: Interactive Analytical Processing

To facilitate the processing of customer data, a protocol of various records, requests and responses based on identification cards is used. In this way, the client can direct work tasks automatically to the analytic cluster, noting actions on the server. As for accelerators for planning the placement of tasks in clusters, they are indicated in the identification cards provided by the server to the client.

US Patent No. 8903360: Mobile Device Verification

To check the mobile device using the method and a computer program. For identification, voice data transmission via a mobile device is used. The voice data contains a recorded coded phrase that the user utters. If the check is successful, an access code is sent to the device.

In more detail with the work of some of the inventors from among the employees of the company can be found at this link .