Streaming War or Alliance?
Hulu joined the edge computing space in early 2021 with an application published detailing a process for predicting storage of video files in caches. This functionality would obviously be very beneficial for all streaming platforms as it…
AT&T Follows Verizon Into Blockchain
AT&T is still lagging behind major competitor, Verizon, in edge computing with 40 patent documents in the last ten years to Verizon’s 63. However, AT&T is keeping up with Verizon in the blockchain category with their first patent…
Ford Joins Edge Computing But Toyota Has A Head Start
Toyota is currently the leader among car manufacturers and it isn’t close. Despite Kia Motors having an earlier entrance into the edge computing space, that start has only mustered one issued patent and two patent applications published.…
Livepeer v. Theta Labs: Livepeer Quickly Falling Behind Theta’s Fast Start
Livepeer and Theta Labs have similar business goals, both are offering revolutionary new ways to stream video content using decentralized blockchain technology while exploring additional technology avenues like NFTs to expand their…
Smart Patent Strategy Will Help Navio Develop Smart Cities
Navio International is a startup focused on developing Smart Cities with the use of stations that mount on the top of street lights. As opposed to new street lights with built-in sensors, Navio offers a product that mounts directly onto…
Pratexo Starting Strong, But Will They Patent?
Pratexo is a small Edge-as-a-Service startup based in the US. In October of 2021 they won the startup of the year award at Edge Computing World after having just raised $3.5 million during Pratexo’s seed round in June. Founded in 2020,…
Section.IO Joins Edge Computing
Section IO offers Edge as a Service (Eaas) and was founded in Australia before moving to Colorado, US. Section.io raised twelve million dollars in April of 2021 and recently joined the edge computing sector with their first published…
StrongNode Brings Open Source Software to Edge Computing, But No Patents
StrongNode is a unique startup in the increasingly competitive edge computing space. Co-founded by Daniel Saito, a former executive of MySQL who was part of their $1b exit to Sun Microsystems, StrongNode offers Node…
Nusantao Is A Startup To Watch
Nusantao, Inc. is a small startup founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, CA. As the company itself is fairly new, Nusantao is new to the edge computing sector with only four total patent assets, with the earliest one being filed in…
HP Wins Big Contract with NSA
Hewlett-Packard (HP) was highlighted in August of 2020 for their big spending and acquisition-heavy approach in edge computing. This week it appears that the investment has paid off. HPE announced a $2 billion, ten year contract with the…
FogHorn Gets Deal with Aramco
Foghorn Systems is a startup based in Sunnyvale, CA that develops edge intelligence solutions for IoT applications deployed in industrial or commercial settings. Founded in 2014, Foghorn has raised over $70 million in funding and was…
Theta Labs Ties For Second As It Wins Third Patent
Theta Labs is a startup that is building a content-delivery network for streaming and video delivery. Theta Labs was previously featured in an insight about some of the big-name partnerships it had been able to make with companies like…
Swarmio Reduces Lag, Fast Tracks First Patent
Swarmio Media is a small startup in Canada that develops eSports monetization solutions and cloud-based computing platforms. Swarmio is still in the early stages as a company with only 40 employees and around $85k in revenue in 2020, but…
Viasat Takes Break, Comes Back To Patent More In Edge Computing
Viasat Inc. is a communications company based in Carlsbad, CA. Viasat was one of the earliest entries into edge computing with patent assets dating back to 2009. They originally showed up in the platform non-blockchain category before…
Rockwell Still Investing In Edge Computing, But Its Patent Portfolio Doesn’t Rock…Well
Rockwell Automation is an industrial automation company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Rockwell was initially active in the edge computing sector with seven total patent assets, but their most recent issuance is from 2019 and their last…
AT&T Partners With Google Cloud As Edge Computing Follows Buddy System
AT&T recently expanded their partnership with Google Cloud, enabling use of AT&T’s Network Edge platform for Google Cloud workloads and adding Google Cloud functionality like artificial intelligence to AT&T’s multi-access edge…
Lumen Leverages Patent Portfolio To Make Key Partnerships
Lumen Technologies is one of the top ten companies in the edge computing sector with over 30 patent assets in the last five years. They have been utilizing this position to strike partnerships with other large companies recently, with one…
Verizon Dips Its Toes Into The Blockchain Pool
Verizon has been active in the edge computing industry since back in 2009, making them one of the earliest major entries to the sector. In the past ten years (2011-2021), Verizon has sixty total patent assets, with 41 documents in Platform…
Should Microsoft Let The Limelight Shine On Game Pass?
Microsoft uses edge computing for multiple purposes, but recently one area of strong investment has been through its gaming division. Microsoft’s game streaming platform, Game Pass, has been heavily invested in over the past year to offer…
Communications Gets Left Behind As Edge Computing Gains Momentum
Edge computing has been booming lately, propelled by advancements in chip technology, the adoption of 5G, and COVID-19. This expansion seems to be leaving behind the communications category of edge computing, leaving room for a company to…
NetraDyne Keeps Driving Momentum
NetraDyne, a California based startup focused on deep learning and computer vision solutions for driver analytics and safety, recently gained another partnership, this time with OmniVision, a digital imaging company. NetraDyne only…
Intel’s IP Roadmap – Great. Product Planning – Not So Great
Intel quickly became the leader in edge computing even though they did not begin filing patents in the space until 2017. They made up for the late start by keeping up a relentless pace in patent applications that has allowed them to…
Honda is a Trendsetter for…Samsung?
As the saying goes, slow patent activity makes for strange bedfellows. Or at least that should be the saying. While Samsung is not partnering with Honda, it is following Honda’s idea of partnering with companies that have existing…
Dell Lags in Edge Computing – Partnership Might be an Option.
Dell is often touted as one of the leaders in the edge computing industry, and even recently discussed how edge computing was a major component in its future plans as a company with the release of their Streaming Data Platform. However, it…
Dell, Vapor IO, and VMware Partner to Define the Cutting Edge in Edge Computing
Dell, Vapor IO, VMware, and a few other startups have all announced a partnership called the Open Grid Alliance. The goal of the Alliance is to define and standardize what a future edge-focused Internet could and should look like. This is…
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