An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google's Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts.
It says Chrome's Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July, sends just partial application updates to the browser to save on bandwidth and reduce vulnerabilities.
Google is also accused of damaging Red Bend by publishing and distributing Chrome's open source source code.
It's asking treble damages for willfulness. Red Bend's patent No 6,546,552 dates to April 2003 and was filed for in 1998. It covers a method for generating a compact difference result between an old program and a new program and is titled "Difference extraction between two versions of data tables containing intra-references."
Red Bend's software is used mostly in mobile phones and apparently owns better than half of the market for delivering "firmware over the air."
The company, which has offices in Massachusetts, is backed by Carmel Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, Infinity, Greylock, Poalim Ventures and Coral Capital.
About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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generating a compact difference result between an old program and a new program and is titled "Difference extraction between two versions of data tables containing intra-references."
