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In the industry has a reputation for Qualcomm patent wall is located in the headquarters of Qualcomm's floor. With the passage of time, the patent certificate in the growing, "patent wall" also will rapidly expand to both sides. However, from the intuitive point of view, the patent wall may not accommodate all Qualcomm patents, according to statistics, only in 2005, Qualcomm won 1600 patents.

Talk about Qualcomm, there is always a topic can not be bypassed, and it is closely related to many of its patent licensing model. In Qualcomm's main business, semiconductor chips, technology licensing and wireless Internet each accounted for one. However, there are indications that the sensitive topic of patents, Qualcomm showed a more open attitude. For this topic, Qualcomm on a number of occasions to actively express their views, although this does not mean that Qualcomm's patent licensing position change.

Previously, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacob told reporters in Chinese made it clear that, for the European part of the equipment manufacturers involved in LTE standards only occupies 5% vendors with the highest proportion of patents "proposal, Qualcomm can not accept, because this will eventually harm" really engaged in invention of the company ", and this point Qualcomm is also to the outside world, repeatedly stressed that the most important demands for patents for mode.

In the present development of communication technology, Qualcomm will undoubtedly stand on a creative high ground, in WCDMA and CDMA2000 and the subsequent evolution of technology, and technology research and development based on OFDM, Qualcomm has a large lead. In the view of high, there is an equal starting point between its leading chip products makes the downstream equipment manufacturers, technology licensing can help manufacturers to shorten the time to market, and enhance its competitiveness. And all of this is based on its high investment in product technology research and development, and to ensure that the high input capacity is an important condition to obtain the patent license fees. According to reports, in 2005, Qualcomm invested a total of $1 billion in research and development funds, accounting for 18% of annual revenue.

Qualcomm, a senior internal sources told reporters that Qualcomm is a technology based company, if there is no patent protection, Qualcomm's success is impossible. At the same time, he stressed to reporters: Qualcomm has not raised the standard authorized rate."

In addition, with Qualcomm's successful acquisition of Flarion (OFDM/OFDMA technology's leading company), the industry has a lot of concerns about the future of OFDM technology patents. In this regard, Qualcomm market senior vice president JeffBelk said: "if Qualcomm acquired Flarion, Flarion will use Qualcomm's patent licensing model, the acquisition would in fact reduce the cost of equipment manufacturers authorized." And not long ago, SOMANetworks and UCT announced that the two companies have reached an agreement on the issue of OFDM/OFDMA's patent licensing and qualcomm.

"GSM is the only technology licensing fees, the proportion of the data has not been widely discussed, according to a document in September 2000 the EU's disclosure, GSM patent fees actually accounted for more than 29%. China, South Korea and other countries of the equipment manufacturers actually bear a relatively heavy GSM patent licensing fees." The person further said.

The wireless Internet

In Qualcomm Corp's three main business, up to now, the semiconductor chip business has accounted for 60% of its revenue, and the business of wireless Internet business has formed a good situation of mutual support, its outstanding performance is the BREW business.

Because the BREW platform is built on the bottom of the chip, through the close integration with the chip, it can provide scalable and efficient program running environment. In the near future, Qualcomm's BREW business has begun to force the field.

In the BREW2006 Developers Conference, Paul Jacob announced that BREW business has brought $700 million in revenue for developers, while in June 2005 this figure was $350 million. As can be seen, BREW business is showing a rapid growth trend. According to statistics, BREW is currently in the global total of 69 operators customers.

In this BREW Developers Conference, Qualcomm focuses on the three major solutions for BREW, which is the most eye-catching end users uiOne. This solution can provide a rich, integrated and dynamic user experience on wireless devices, according to Qualcomm Internet Services Department is responsible for the Asia Pacific region StevenBrown told reporters: "uiOne can meet the end users on-demand mobile phone interface business needs, business applications quickly so as to facilitate the user's personalized service. It can use the most simple way to launch the best application, and let customers understand that the service is provided by the operator rather than a brand of mobile phones." At the same time, StevenBrown revealed that the current Qualcomm uiOne has 5 users, in addition to Sprint such as CDMA operators, but also includes WCDMA operator O2.

China Unicom also showed great interest in the solution. The general manager of China Unicom Broadbus Communication Technology Co., Shen Jin believes that the original mobile phone terminal and user interface due to not form good communication ability to customize the application, so a lot of very creative to be buried in the application range, while uiOne is a very good solution to this problem.

Li Zhengmao, vice president of China Unicom, said: China Unicom's important market strategy in 2006, including: to provide the market with BREW business