Latest patent lawsuit to target Google takes aim at Android's power management code
Latest patent lawsuit to target Google takes aim at Android’s power management code We’re used to seeingpatent lawsuitsfiled by small holding firms against tech giants go through Texas’s federal courts. Whether they end up being rightful claims to royalties or a fruitless attempt at trolling, we don’t often recognize the names of the plaintiffs. Not so with this new case against Google coming out of Purdue University. The Purdue Research Foundation issuingthe web search giant (viaReuters) for infringing ona published patentdescribing how to detect power-sapping errors called “power bugs” or, in Google’s terms, “wake locks” — outdated or inaccurate requests from apps asking to prevent a sleep state....