{"id":4966,"date":"2008-09-26T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/googles-telephony-patent-application-not-novel\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T22:33:11","slug":"googles-telephony-patent-application-not-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/googles-telephony-patent-application-not-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Telephony Patent Application not Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGoogle has apparently filed an application for a system that allows bandwidth provider to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/article\/google-patents-tech-could-overturn-telcos-35751\">bid on phone calls:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s patent is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flexible Communication Systems and Methods\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the abstract says:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to carry the telecommunications session, and automatically selecting one of the telecommunications carriers from the carriers submitting a bid, and initiating the telecommunication session through the selected telecommunication carrier.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/telephonyonline.com\/external.html?q=http:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/article\/google-patents-tech-could-overturn-telcos-35751\">full patent here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The thing I find interesting about this is that I invented a similar technique in 1997, motivated by the desire to get bandwidth-on-demand for video conferences. If this is granted, it certainly won&#8217;t survive a court challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some details on my invention, which was never patented, shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/net neutrality\" rel=\"tag\">net neutrality<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Google\" rel=\"tag\">Google<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/VoIP\" rel=\"tag\">VoIP<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Internet\" rel=\"tag\">Internet<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has apparently filed an application for a system that allows bandwidth provider to bid on phone calls: Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s patent is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flexible Communication Systems and Methods\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the abstract says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/googles-telephony-patent-application-not-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s Telephony Patent Application not Novel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1i6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}