Google Buys More Patents Off IBM

Bill Slawski, who writes SEO by the Sea, says the 188 patents and 29 patent applications cover a "broad range of topics, just as presentation software, blade servers, data caching, server load balancing, network performance, video conferencing, e-mail administration, and instant messaging applications. A number of the patents cover specific Internet, phone and mobile phone technologies as then."

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