Red Bend, a VC-backed mobile phone software developer, is taking Google to court over alleged infringement of a patent it holds.
In its legal complaint filed earlier this week in Boston’s district court, Red Bend claims the Internet giant is using a patented algorithm that allows it to issue smaller-sized updates for its Chrome Web browser.
The software maker says it has invented technology that enables wireless carriers to distribute updates for mobile-phone software and that Google’s updating process for Chrome uses a similar differential compression algorithm called Courgette (that’d be the French word for zucchini).
Basically, Courgette enables software developers to update portions of existing products rather than replace them in their entirety. According to Google’s developer documentation, Courgette is a more efficient way to identify where and how changes must be made in the underlying code.
According to Red Bend, this technology infringes on a patent it filed more than 10 years ago and which it was awarded in April 2003 (USPTO: 6,546,552). The patent is titled “Difference extraction between two versions of data-tables containing intra-references” and covers a method for generating a compact difference result between an old and a new program.
Red Bend claims Google has known about its patent concerns since early September. Google has not commented on the allegations because it says it has not yet been served with the complaint.
The mobile phone software company, which has offices around the world but was originally founded in Israel, is backed by roughly $34 million in venture capital from investors like Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners, Pitango Venture Capital and Infinity.
(Via Law360)
“(that’d be the French word for zucchini).”
Actually its the word that everyone outside North America uses.
Yours pedantically,
Yes, it’s the word that *some* countries outside North America use (.e.g, they actually use ‘zucchini’ in Germany too).
And it’s the French word for zucchini.
OK, well in the UK its “courgette” anyhoo!!!
“zucchini” is the american word for “courgette”
‘Zucchini’ is an italian word…
we call it ‘cukinia’ in Poland.
Zucchini is used in North America and Australia. Courgette is used almost everywhere else, including the UK, Ireland, France, South Africa, and New Zealand (who will no opportunity to differentiate themselves from Australia pass).
I used to call it a “baby marrow” but that doesn’t sound sexy enough to pull chicks. Courgette is good.
I call it icky.
Why is google so evil?
Actually Jamie Thomson – seeing as how TechCrunch is based in the US – the original assessment of the article would be correct. Does anyone want to have this arguement over the word ‘football’ too?
Why not have someone go back and re-work the article in reverse so that it says Zucchini where it should say Courgette and Courgette where it should say Zucchini.
The word zucchini is in fact Italian in origin.
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I’m suing everyone for infringing on th ability to type text that is out-putted on an electrical display by means of text editor.
Guys,
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“Difference extraction between two versions of data-tables containing intra-references”… umm so like a diff then.
That’s what I got out of this.
We’re suing you for using the color blue.
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It also appears to conflict with a patent I wrote for Palm # 6,959,330 “Sync-time read only memory image binding for limited resource devices”
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