In Brief: Nextance launches Intellectual Property Optimization Suite
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Nextance last week announced its Intellectual Property Optimization Suite, which enables users to manage valuable intellectual property (IP) assets and associated contractual agreements in order to more effectively optimize revenue and mitigate legal risk related to IP. Nextance's IP Optimization Suite manages the entire lifecycle of IP assets and addresses such issues as underutilized IP assets, underpaid licensing and royalty revenue, unnecessary risks related to legal compliance, and sluggish time-to-market for new solutions that increasingly depend on IP. Pricing starts at $500,000 and ranges to over $1,000,000 depending on the size of the organization and sophistication of the implementation.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that UPEK, Inc., a global leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, has chosen to implement the Cadence(R) Incisive(R) Formal Verifier into its overall design flow for assertion-based formal analysis.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Fujitsu Limited successfully optimized ARM926EJ-S(TM) and ARM946E-S(TM) processors using Cadence(R) Encounter(R) RTL Compiler and the Cadence Optimization Methodology Kit.
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The product represents the next stage in the company's strategy to build a full open-source middleware stack.
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(InfoWorld) - Xerox research subsidiary the Palo Alto Research Center has struck a licensing deal with a high-profile startup in the hopes of building a search engine that could one day rival Google. Powerset in San Francisco is developing a search engine based on natural language processing with the help of PARC, which has been working on technology in this area for 30 years, said Powerset founder and CEO Barney Pell. The search engine is expected to go live by the end of the year. Powerset, which has raised $12.5 million in funding from various venture capital firms and angel investors, has been negotiating with PARC to use the technology the research firm developed since September 2005, a mere month after Powerset was launched and a month before the company was incorporated in October, Pell said. The startup even managed to win over top talent from PARC to join its team. Ron Kaplan, who led the PARC team that developed the natural language processing technology Powerset is licensing, is joining the company as its chief technology and scientific officer. In addition to the licenses, Powerset also holds the patents to the technology, Pell said. In return, PARC receives equity in Powerset and royalties on company revenue. Powerset also is funding the natural language processing research team's efforts at PARC. Pell described the difference between how a search engine powered by natural language processing technology and search engines available from Google, Yahoo, and others that depend on keywords work. He said the way many of the top search engines today index Web content is in keywords, but they don't have any idea what those words mean or how they relate to each other. A search engine based on natural language, however, can accept queries written as people normally speak -- such as, "What company did IBM acquire in 1996?" Pell said. The results of the search should directly answer that question without giving a Web user every reference to the words "acquire," "IBM" and "1996" that have been indexed. It's true the major Web search engines such as Google do question-and-answer type searches today, Pell said, but they are still mainly based on keywords. Of course, researchers have been working for three decades to come up with successful natural language processing technology, and it has been no easy task, something that Pell himself acknowledges. "Enabling computers to extract meaning and relationships in text ... is an incredibly hard problem," he said. That said, to assume Powerset's search engine will work without a hitch is not necessarily a safe bet. However, Pell said that there have been recent breakthroughs at PARC in this area, and the software that Powerset has licensed should provide some of the highest-quality natural language processing-based search available. Powerset is not the only company attempting to perfect natural language processing-based Web search. Hakia also is developing a search engine based on natural language processing. A beta of that engine can be found here. The Brainboost search engine, which is now a part of Answers.com, also is based on natural language processing.
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Patent cross-licence deal cover all but cutting-edge techs
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Company is prolific filer of patent applications, including those for exotic technologies such as a washable keyboard and software that responds to your emotions.
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Company releases a key-management product aimed at helping companies manage encrypted systems more efficiently.
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Leveraging IP Network Resources to Enable Next-Generation Corporate Communications.
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'Project Nextgen' integrates two compliance assessment products for easier management.
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Platforms have the potential to develop multiple drugs for a company.
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Myriad Genetics' innovative technology creates an investment opportunity.
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Patent Adds to DataPower's Growing Portfolio of Intellectual Property Resulting from More than Five Years of Innovation; Enables Wirespeed XML Acceleration
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This afternoon, Microsoft confirmed to BetaNews it has added three sets of APIs and protocols to its intellectual property portfolio, for availability to corporate developers and other partners between now and next June.  Itâs generally not a free license, but the intention is to give partners who do have the intention to build on these protocols a way to do so, without Microsoft giving away secrets to its competitors.
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PRINCETON, N.J., June 22  /PRNewswire/ -- Next Inning Technology Research (http://www.nextinning.com/), a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it has published updated outlooks for SiRF Technology , Microvision , and PMC-Sierra .
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Improved navigation control is expected with the next release.
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Telecommunications equipment maker Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.  (NYSE:NWK), a global provider of multi-service network exchange  solutions for government and enterprise customers, announced a new  customer for its NX5010 platform within the U.S. Federal Government  market.