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Linspire Inc. has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft Corp. that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims. Microsoft Corp. has claimed Linux and related open-source software violate 235 of its patents, but the company has not provided information to back its claims, including offering a list of its patents allegedly infringed upon.<br /><li>Read the article: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/14/Linspire-signs-patent-deal-with-Microsoft_1.html" target="_blank">InfoWorld</a>

These two patents granted today to Google look like they hold some interesting approaches to using large amounts of data about pages and queries and user interactions to rank pages in search results. Ranking documents based on large data sets Invented by Jeremy Bem, Georges R. Harik, Joshua L. Levenberg, Noam Shazeer, and Simon Tong Assigned to Google US Patent 7,231,399 Granted June 12, 2007 Filed: November 14, 2003 Abstract A system ranks documents based, at least in part, on a ranking model. The ranking model may be generated to predict the likelihood that a document will be selected. The system may receive a search query and identify documents relating to the search query. The system may then rank the documents based, at least in part,...