Cloud input patent Application Mo gimmick

Recently, Huajun Software Park out of a news that "http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9583.html" > Baidu Input Method open API to the cloud Input method to register the patent, which also shocking expression " Sogou's Cloud Input Method November 2009 on-line, but Sogou did not for the technology registered patent "(the original text has deleted this sentence). I looked at the heart rather some wonder son-Sogou really careless to such a point, and Google's plagiarism has not learned the war?

In fact, before Sogou CEO Wang Xiaoquan in TechWeb it Longmen revealed "Sogou hold 104 patents", which also includes the "cloud input" of the patent. And in the State Intellectual Property Office Patent Search Center Query "Sogou", the result is 161, that is, Sogou currently holds the number of patents should be at least 161 or more (there is a screenshot for the card), because there is no public patent here is not retrieved, there must be a lot of patent filing applications, but not yet disclosed.

I looked carefully, in fact, there are at least 3 patents are cloud input patents, respectively, named: an adaptive Input method and system, a method to obtain candidate input methods and systems, a word conversion results of the acquisition method and system, the application time is 2009 years. This may have two possible: first, Baidu is suspected of false propaganda, the second is Huajun report untrue. If it is the former, that Sogou estimated to laugh, if the latter, the reporter's attitude should be more rigorous, in fact, this information only need to prove to the Sogou to avoid errors.

But in fact, this can not completely blame Huajun reporter, about the cloud input, there is a very important mystery-"cloud input" is actually just a packaging concept, from the professional and technical point of view, it is "network input" a technology. Baidu in the patent, its patent name is "a cloud based input method and equipment", or some gimmicks, it is obvious that the use of "cloud computing" thunder. And Sogou currently has 3 patents, on the surface to see and cloud input really a little relationship is not, it is no wonder that Huajun's reporter got it wrong.

Of course, regardless of the "cloud" with the word, technology itself, the application and experience is fundamental, only the user recognition is kingly. In this respect, we see that Sogou is indeed walking in the forefront of the industry. According to the report of the consultation, Sogou has become the most commonly used input method for Chinese users, the market penetration rate is close to 80%. In this I still appeal to the industry, less gimmicks and show off, more pragmatic, only to continue to do a good job of technological innovation, the user experience to do enough, can really win the market.