Top box operating system is strongly pushed Internet box affected?

This reporter has learned that the State Administration of Radio Film and Television recently issued a circular to the provincial (city) Broadcasting and Television Bureau, requiring cable television network companies to carry out set-top box operating system TVOS1.0 scale application test, the future of cable operators around the release of smart TV set-top boxes and other terminals must be installed using TVOS1 .0 software, may not install other than TVOS operating system.

It is understood that in March 2012, the State Administration of Radio Science and Technology Department organized scientific research institutes, equipment developers, network operators and other 19 units established NGB (Next Generation TV Network) TVOS joint development group, to carry out research and development work NGBTVOS purpose Is to make radio and television technology system toward unity. In December last year , it has organized the acceptance and release of TVOS1.0, a smart TV operating system .

The latest notice of SARFT shows that this promotion experiment is to further improve the application of TVOS1.0 and corresponding smart TV set-top boxes, so that enterprises can explore and summarize the procedures and modes of TVOS1.0 intelligent terminal operation and management.

The notice emphasized the importance of the TVOS system and said it is of great importance to safeguarding the cultural safety of the triple play and supporting the digital, networked and intelligent development of radio and television.

It is noteworthy that, this notice only for cable companies, music box, millet box and other Internet boxes are not included. Radio and Television Academy Dean Zou Feng interview earlier confirmed that the TVOS operating system standard is not a mandatory standard, but only a suggested standard, the country will not be mandatory in the appliance manufacturers or operators.

■ Analysis

Or extend to all boxes

Triple play fusion experts, integration net editor Wu Chun-Yong told reporters that at present most of the boxes are based on Android system custom, after the formation of the scale required to pay Andrew. The TVOS added more security modules, more in line with the domestic environment. TVOS in the promotion of the system, the current only for cable companies scale application test.

In Wu Chunyong's opinion, once the large-scale test is successful, SARFT will continue in the home appliance business, Internet companies in the pilot. Although the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is the formulation of television standards, the current SARFT TVOS1.0 operating system can not be mandatory standards, but do not rule out the two will jointly introduce industry standards, and even the introduction of national standards.

Google, Canon, Dropbox and other allied to prevent patent rogue According to technology blog Re / code reports, a few large and small technology companies alliance signed a patent control agreement to prevent intellectual property litigation.

The agreement involved nearly 300,000 patents from Google, Canon, SAP , Newegg , Dropbox and Asana . However, instead of cross-licensing patents, these companies agreed to join the License on Transfer ( "LOT" ) to transfer their patent authorization network and promised to sell the patents to other LOT members.

The intention is to eliminate the threat of patents so that they can not threaten companies in the LOT , even if they fall into the hands of patent rogues .

Google last year called for companies to work together to deal with patent gangsters, called for the formation of LOT belongs to its follow-up. LOT also welcome other companies to join.

Google legal director responsible for the actions of Eric Surman (Eric Schulman) stated, LOT for that particular status quo: according to RPXResearch data, the number of patent litigation rogue highest level in history --2012 years of patent litigation is more than 60% patent rogue initiated, 20% higher than in 2006-- At the same time, patent rogue use of patented more than 70% from among the companies still operating.

That is, patent rogues do not simply collect obsolete patents from closed companies and independent inventors. It is often the companies accused of patent infringement who paid for research and development and were initially patented.

The patent reform of the U.S. government seems to have no result. LOT is one of the efforts of enterprises to change the patent system. Relevant companies think they must obtain patent rights for the efforts of their employees to prevent patent litigation. For example, Twitter is committed to giving its inventors more control over the use of patents.

LOT differs from common patent-sharing operations in that it involves numerous patent portfolios and the agreement applies only to the patent being transferred, so its members can still use their own patents to launch attacks against each other.

Dropbox intellectual property consultant Brett Altenburg (Brett Alten) stated, LOT is attractive, "it is an inclusive model for large and small companies do not favor large companies are most likely in LOT's network foreign patent sale or transfer of assets. small companies are basically safe from the threat posed by those transactions. large companies can also benefit, because small companies are often unsustainable when the patents sold to patent trolls. "

LOT members include Asana , a productivity-product startup , and Asana has only three patents and has never faced a patent rogue suit. The company's co-founder Dustin Moskowitz (Dustin Moskovitz), said the company's defensive patent strategy will not change.

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