MICROSOFT, GOOGLE AND AMAZON PATENTING STRATEGY, 2009-2018

Analysis by 62,000 full-text patents read and analysed by Teqmine AI

www.teqmine.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

● The patenting strategies of Microsoft, Google How the analysis was done and Google are significantly converging.

● Patent and technology race between them is 62,000 USPTO 1st time publications with Microsoft, Google or Amazon as assignee was extracted. intensifying, but they share defense against other firms. Full-text patent descriptions were read and classified by Teqmine AI into 15 different Topic Areas.

● Their overall patenting volume shows moderate AI created topics were visualized with Word Clouds and given human decline. names. (see following slides)

● Data was loaded to Technology Map On-Line portal for detailed Strategic technology areas show clear increase analysis and updates. in patenting volume. Learn more at: www.teqmine.com ● Amazon has built significant lead in cloud computing related technologies & patenting.

● They are all venturing into mobility and sensors.

MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, AMAZON USPTO PATENTING 2009-2018 Source: Teqmine 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, AMAZON Patenting strategy & profile, 2013-2018

Topic 1 Topic 1 Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 15 Topic 2 Topic 15 Topic 2 Topic 15 700 700 700 Topic 3 Topic 14 Topic 3 Topic 14 Topic 3 Topic 14

200 200 200 Topic 4 Topic 13 Topic MICROSOFT 4 Topic 13 Topic MICROSOFT 4 Topic 13 MICROSOFT -300 GOOGLE -300 GOOGLE -300 GOOGLE Topic 5 Topic 12 Topic 5 Topic 12 Topic 5 Topic 12 AMAZON AMAZON AMAZON

Topic 6 Topic 11 Topic 6 Topic 11 Topic 6 Topic 11

Topic 7 Topic 10 Topic 7 Topic 10 Topic 7 Topic 10 Topic 8 Topic 9 Topic 8 Topic 9 Topic 8 Topic 9 2013-2014 2015-2016 2017-2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Image and Video Processing & Encoding 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 1: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Device User Interface & Interacting 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 2: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Servers, Networks and Storage 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 3: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Network and Computing Resources (Virtual Memory) 160 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 4: 140 120 100 80 60 40 Topics created by Teqmine AI 20 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING User Authentication, Information & Service 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 5: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Natural Language Processing 180 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 6: 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 Topics created by Teqmine AI 20 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING File-Data-System-Instruction-Code 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 7: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Search & Query 450 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 8: 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by Teqmine AI 50 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Computer Data and Media Storage 1000 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 9: 900 800 700 600 500 400 300

Topics created by 200 Teqmine AI 100 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Web Documents and Internet Browsing 300 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 10: 250

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Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING User Displays and Interfaces 450 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 11: 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by Teqmine AI 50 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Mobile & Wireless Devices and Communication 350 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 12: 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by 50 Teqmine AI from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Graphs and Nodes 90 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 13: 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 Topics created by Teqmine AI 10 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Advertising and Campaigns 160 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 14: 140 120 100 80 60 40 Topics created by Teqmine AI 20 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

MICROSOFT, AMAZON & GOOGLE PATENTING Optical Sensors and Cameras 400 Source: USPTO patent applications, Teqmine TOPIC 15: 350 300 250 200 150 100 Topics created by Teqmine AI 50 from full-text patents 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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