IBM, Virage Announce Broad Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. and SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 9, 1997--IBM Corporation and Virage, Inc. today announced a broad software patent cross-licensing agreement covering their multimedia information management technologies. Virage, a leading provider of media asset management solutions to broadcast corporations, advertising agencies, and consumer products and services companies, will license multimedia information management technologies that are covered by IBM's patent portfolio, including its pioneering Query By Image Content (QBIC QBIC Query By Image Content QBIC queries based on image content QBIC Cubic Format ) image search technology. As part of the agreement, Virage will also license its entire patent portfolio to IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Multimedia information management technologies, such as QBIC, Virage's VIR VIR Virtual VIR Virgin Islands (ISO Country code) VIR Virginia International Raceway VIR Vascular and Interventional Radiology VIR Vehicle Inspection Report VIR Virtual Interface (Alteon) Engine and the Virage Media Management System, allow users to search and sort through databases of digital images and video clips by specifying some of the visual properties -- for example: color, position, texture and video-scene summary "storyboard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. thumbnail" images. Such searches are increasingly useful as collections of digital images and video become more popular and contain large numbers of items. Such databases are difficult if not impossible to search through by hand or by using traditional text-based keywords, especially when multiple languages and cultures are involved. "Virage is pleased to enter into this cross-licensing agreement with IBM," said Paul G. Lego, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Virage. "We are excited by the broad range of technology which IBM has developed in the area of multimedia asset management and intend to use these technologies to complement our own significant intellectual property in this area." Drew Clark, Worldwide Technology Executive, Software Solutions Division at IBM, added, "We are happy to see companies such as Virage license IBM technologies. We invest heavily in research and development efforts, particularly in new database technology for World Wide Web, digital library and electronic commerce applications. Third-party licensing confirms the value of that investment and its underlying patent portfolio." Specific terms of the cross-licensing agreement are confidential. About Virage Virage, Inc. (www.virage.com) provides breakthrough media asset management solutions for broadcast corporations, advertising agencies and consumer product and service companies. Virage's products help these organizations derive significant operational and competitive advantages through managing and providing timely, distributed access to their media content. Headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Virage was founded in 1993 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging diverse media assets. About IBM IBM Corp. (www.ibm.com) is the world's largest computer manufacturer and is currently ranked by Software Magazine as the world's top software provider. It creates, develops and manufactures the industry's most advanced and extensive range of information technology products and solutions. IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. began developing advanced image and video search technologies in the early 1990s and has built a strong patent portfolio in this area. CONTACT: Virage Inc. Dave Bayliss 650/573-3234 dbayliss@virage.com or IBM Corp. Michael Ross For the United States congressman from Arkansas, see . Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 – May 13, 2005) was an American serial killer. Early life Ross was born in Putnam, Connecticut to Patricia Hilda Laine and Dan Graeme Ross. 408/927-1283 mikeross@almaden.ibm.com |
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