Microsoft online leader holds music search patent
C|Net | at | by Mike
When Microsoft hired Qi Lu to run its online business last week, the company trumpted the fact that Lu holds 20 patents.
Patents are far from rare at Microsoft--many developers and researchers hold them--but the online business has typically been led by people with a business or marketing background. That hasn't been working out too well, so they're putting a geek in charge.
Qi Lu The Seattle Post Intelligencer's Microsoft reporter, Joe Tartakoff, did a little digging on Tuesday to uncover exactly what kinds of patents Lu holds. Most interesting to me, one of them relates to music.