Yahoo isn’t making any friends by suing Facebook over 10 alleged patent infringements.
The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Suing Facebook Over
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Yahoo Is Suing Facebook For Patent Infringement
Yahoo is charging ahead with a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
Yahoo Blindsides Facebook With Patent Allegations
Yahoo surprised Facebook with a host of patent-infringement allegations Monday, covering areas including advertising, website personalization, social network, and messaging, and apparently stating its case to The New York Times at the same time, giving the social network little time to respond.
Timelines Explains Trademark Suit Against Facebook
While Facebook has delayed the launch of timeline indefinitely, Timeline.com has divulged its stance in the trademark battle against Facebook over the term “timeline.”
Facebook Wins Patent For Digital Media Tagging
While you may find getting tagged in a photo of when you were drunk last night annoying, Facebook thinks such methods are worth protecting, which is why they filed and received approval of a patent for it.
Facebook's Second Patent On News Feed OKed
Facebook has obtained approval of a second patent application related to the news feed, specifically for personalizing the content presented.
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Facebook Ad Patent Taps Your Social Network
Some people I know leave their Facebook profiles fairly blank to try to avoid targeted advertising. Facebook engineers have found a way around this with what they call “inferential targeting” – and they’ve filed a patent application to cover their method.
Zynga Tries To Patent In-Game Virtual Currency
Social gaming company Zynga has filed a patent application for virtual currency in online games.
Facebook Files For Patent Of Social CAPTCHAs
In its latest salvo in the fight against spam, Facebook has filed a patent application for a “social CAPTCHA” system.
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Facebook Awarded A Social Search Patent
Today Facebook was awarded a patent for “ranking search results based on the frequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation”. The patent, which was first filed by in 2004, emphasizes that Facebook has been working on a number of algorithms to improve their search results, one of which is a tool that Google employs in their own search results: the number of clicks.
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