2014年获得技术专利最多的8大公司

    意外惊喜：

    8. 谷歌

    专利数量：2566项

    代表性专利：“通过采用排名转换函数改变文件排名”

    国家：美国

    《财富》杂志最初计划仅介绍前七家公司，但如果漏掉今年最大的赢家之一——谷歌，那将是我们的失职。谷歌今年首次进入榜单前十名。该公司今年获得的专利较之前一年增加了38%（以电子与数字数据处理类为主），两年前才进入50家专利大户排行。（另外，亚马逊今年首次进入排行榜，名列第50名）。谷歌如此大幅度的进步令卡迪都深感意外。他说道，榜单几乎每年都保持稳定，“因此，这样的变化令人惊叹不已”。谷歌的这项专利涉及一种算法，用于确定一个文件的多重排名，并为两个文件形成过渡性排名。该项技术的目的是阻止某些人利用所谓排名修改垃圾邮件的手段操控谷歌的搜索结果。我们看到谷歌成功“修改了”它在商业专利数据库专利排行榜中的排名，而且效果很好。（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    审校：任文科

    BONUS:

    8. Google

    Patents earned: 2,566

    Representative patent: "Changing a Rank of a Document by Applying a Rank Transition Function"

    Country: United States

    Although Fortune intended to cap this list at seven companies, we would be remiss not to include one of the year's biggest winners—Google, which debuted for the first time in the top 10. The company, which was awarded 38% more patents this year than the year prior (most of them in the electrical and digital data processing—a.k.a. computers—category), entered the top 50 list only two years ago. (For the curious, Amazon snuck onto the top 50 list this year for the first time in the ultimate spot.) Google's ascendency from out of seemingly nowhere surprises Cady."It was a stunning move," he says—especially on a list that stays mostly stagnant from year to year. Aptly, Google's highlighted patent involves an algorithm that determines multiple rankings for a document, and creates a transitional ranking between the two. The purpose is to hamper people who manipulate Google's search results with so-called rank-modifying spamming. Here we see Google modifying its own ranking on the IFI Claims patent list, to great effect.