On June 8, Huawei announced its patent licensing status for 2021 at its headquarters in Bantian, Shenzhen. Fan Zhiyong, director of Huawei's Intellectual Property Department, said that in the past five years, more than 2 billion smartphones have obtained Huawei's 4G/5G patent licenses, and about 8 million connected cars have obtained Huawei's 4G/5G patent licenses every year.
He also said that in 2021, Huawei is the company with the most authorized patents in China, ranking first in the number of patent applications at the European Patent Office, and ranking fifth in the number of new patent authorizations in the United States. Huawei's PCT patent applications have ranked first in the world for five consecutive years.
Every two years, Huawei announces the “Top Ten Inventions” of its employees in the past period. This award aims to recognize and reward inventions or patented technologies that have the potential to create new product lines, become important commercial features of products, and bring huge commercial value to companies and industries.
On June 8, Huawei announced the top ten invention awards in 2021. Due to fierce competition and tie votes, 11 inventions were finally selected. These inventions cover multiple fields such as autonomous driving, 5G networks, and terminals.
The details are as follows:
The first item is a new additive neural network. This invention can reduce computing power consumption and circuit area by 70% while ensuring accuracy. The related technology can be widely used in various terminal equipment, consumer electronics, smart cars and telecommunications networks.
The second item is the multi-objective game algorithm. This invention solves some key challenges in autonomous driving, including positioning, perception and decision-making in complex scenes where people and vehicles are mixed on urban roads. This invention solves more than 70 cases of interactive scene takeover difficulties, shortens travel time by 40%, reduces storage overhead by 200 times, and reduces computing power consumption by more than 85%.
The third item is the optical iris. The passive nature of optical fiber makes its management very difficult. This patent helps operators accelerate the deployment of optical fiber broadband, reduce resource waste by 30%, and reduce operating costs by 20% by inscribing optical irises on optical fibers and using them as biometric tags for optical fibers.
The fourth item is full-precision floating point calculations. This invention achieves the integration of high efficiency and high precision computing power, and solves the floating point computing needs of multiple scenarios such as high-performance computing and AI reasoning. This invention has already been put into production in Ascend chips.
The fifth item is the head-up display system. Huawei said that this invention has "epoch-making significance." It solves the problems of ghosting, dazzling and dizziness in smart car head-up display systems, greatly reducing the size, freeing up computing resources and reducing latency, allowing consumers to see more clearly and at a lower cost.
The sixth item is deterministic IP. This invention enables deterministic low latency and low jitter for large-scale packet networks. Based on this invention, Huawei released an exclusive deterministic IP network solution to achieve remote industrial control with microsecond accuracy.
The seventh item is the kite plan. This invention can help operators deploy remote core networks or "kite networks" in their enterprise customers' campuses to meet the high reliability and security requirements of industries such as manufacturing, mining and education.
The eighth item is BladeAAU and Massive MIMO solutions. This invention solves key challenges in indoor and outdoor 5G deployment. Outdoors, BladeAAU can deploy 5G networks in a minimalist manner while ensuring optimal network performance of different standards; indoors, distributed MIMO technology can significantly improve 5G network capacity and user experience.
The ninth item is 5G Single Air. As a technology that has been incorporated into the 5G standard, this invention allows the network to use more shared spectrum resources, increasing the shared ratio of 5G cross-standard spectrum resources from 40% in the 4G era to 90%. Based on this invention, Huawei has achieved the industry's only millisecond-level dynamic spectrum sharing commercial capability. Currently, this invention has been successfully commercialized in 26 offices around the world.
The tenth item is dual-active network attached storage.
This invention realizes the world's first symmetrical active-active high-end storage system, with twice the performance of the industry, and can meet the expansion and zero-service interruption requirements in transportation, energy, finance and other fields.
The eleventh item is LinkTurbo and Hyperhold. The invention is a pure terminal-side acceleration combination. Using this patent, smartphones can provide users with a smooth experience under various network and memory usage conditions. LinkTurbo can significantly increase concurrent download rates and reduce game latency and video buffering latency, while Hyperhold can significantly expand available memory and improve basic read and write performance.
In 2021, Huawei announced the 5G patent rate and said it would provide a reasonable percentage rate applicable to the selling price of 5G mobile phones, with a maximum license fee of US$2.5 for a single unit. The company estimates that after it starts collecting 5G patent fees, Huawei's intellectual property revenue from 2019 to 2021 will be approximately US$1.2 billion to US$1.3 billion, and will expand the scope of open patent licenses from telecommunications infrastructure and consumer electronic terminals to IoT and connected cars. field.
"In the past, we (strengthened) intellectual property rights were working hard to defend ourselves and ensure the security of our own business. Through so many years of accumulation, (Huawei) has made great achievements in 5G, WiFi 6, audio and video codecs, optical transmission, Several major fields such as optical intelligence have formed high-value patent packages and have a certain say," Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said at a recent symposium on patents.
He believes that Huawei should establish a reasonable price benchmark to allow the industry to use its patented technology fairly and reasonably. While obtaining appropriate R&D returns, it will also help Huawei establish its image as an innovator in the international community. In addition, if Huawei uses other people's patents, it must pay reasonably. This has established intellectual property values ??and soil that are conducive to innovation around the world.