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GO INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Follow along as we share the passion and anecdotes of IBMers who helped send people to the moon, hatched trillions of barcodes, launched the computer industry and then even taught one to play Jeopardy! They’re just some of the innovations we’ve been working on to build a smarter planet.
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Are we there yet?, 2012
Another groundbreaking
innovation of the last 20 years
The kids are hungry. Your bladder’s angry. And the line to get through the toll is backed up for miles. According to the GPS, your relaxing day at the beach should have arrived 90 minutes ago.
Enter IBM US Patent No. 8,150,611 and the effort to make family trips and commutes a whole lot easier. By combining both real-time and predictive traffic data, we can better determine how long it takes to get from point A to point B, while navigating past traffic jams. What does this mean for you? For starters, a whole lot less time in the car. Good thing, because the kids have started pulling hair and your wife just put on the greatest soft hits of the 70s.
Massive video stream monitoring, 2009
Another groundbreaking
innovation of the last 20 years
Imagine how much great TV you could catch up on if you were able to watch more than one channel at a time. Unfortunately our minds aren’t wired to process that much visual input at once, but our computers are. Hundreds and thousands of videos in fact.
Now with IBM US Patent No. 7,545,978, multiple video streams can provide us with a clear, current view of what’s going on in any given topic, at any given time. Besides being incredibly useful for tracking business and news events around the globe, it will also work wonders with real-time traffic. Something to think about next time you’re stuck in rush-hour gridlock and your favorite show is about to start.
