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IBM And Others Crack Open OSGi Patent Portfolios

The OSGi platform, a component software standard for networked computers and devices, got an intellectual boost today. Five companies and the OSGi Alliance pledged royalty-free access to patents that can speed the adoption of the technology.

Software components are increasingly important in a range of networked devices: digital mobile phones, vehicles, embedded appliances, residential gateways, industrial computers, desktop PCs, and even high-end servers. The component approach is particularly vital because software components can be installed, assembled, updated, combined with other functions or removed “on the fly” -- without disrupting the operation of a device. In other words, software changes don’t need to shut down the device or reboot it.

The OSGi Alliance is an open standards organization. The five companies opening their OSGi portfolios, all alliance members, are IBM, Gatespace Telematics, Nokia, ProSyst Software and Samsung.

“As a team, we recognize the collective an

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