GreyB：4G LTE领域最具创新力企业50强（英文版）（12页）.pdf

1、TOP 50 INNOVATIVE4GCOMPANIES OF THE LTE DOMAIN4G LTE1From beating drums and lighting a fire for smoke signals to say ahello over a receiver,and then to the 2G,3G eras,and from there tothe current hot topics of communication 4G and 5G we humanshave seen it all.In the recent past,our data requirements

2、 in day-to-day tasks suchas online gaming,internet usage,video streaming,etc.,increasedwhich demanded a separate dedicated data communicationnetwork.This led to the inception of 4G LTE,which is 10 x fasterthan its predecessor 3G.Today,you dont give a second thought when you have to downloada big fat

3、 file or have to watch a video on your smartphone.Allthanks to 4G LTE,your smartphone does everything that yourwired devices can do.As a result,numbers of 4G LTE users areincreasing with every passing day.We conducted a research to find out the most innovative and activecompanies in the field.As the

4、 quality of patents filed is a greatindicator of innovation quotient of a company,we studied patentsfiled in the domain of LTE along with few patent specificparameters to arrive at a list of the most innovative companies ofLTE.2We formulated group of search logic and executed that onavailable patent

5、 databases to extract the relevant patents filedbetween 2011 and 2015.We restricted the patent set to recentfiling dates as latest patent activities of a company representsareas where it channelizing its research and development efforts.This helps provide accurate results.Patents pertinent to LTE ba

6、sed communication can be broadlyclassified into the following categories:-PATENT CLASSIFICATION OF THE 4G LTETECHNOLOGY3After classifying the extracted patents,we calculated individual and further used that to innovation score of acompany.The points we considered to calculate these scores are asfoll