Chapter 172: Sell Me the Patent?

Su Mu drove away, and Lily was ready to sleep before going back to school, promising to call him when she got back safely.

The hangover sequelae were obvious, the stomach was upset, the head hurt, the car was not fast, and I was in time to return to Harvard University at 11 a.m.

Brown University is too small, and Harvard University can drive, and he wanted to come to this school to go to school, but the competition was too fierce, and Yale had already agreed to admit him, so he gave up the interview and went directly to Yale.

The reputation of the two schools is not much different in the education world, and Harvard is slightly better, mainly because there are too many world-class talents from this school, and there are several presidents of the United States alone.

The history of the school can be traced back to the early 17th century, when the first British immigrants arrived in North America, including more than 100 Puritans, who received classical higher education at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and in order to make higher education accessible to their children and grandchildren on the North American continent, Harvard University was born.

Current students may be successful in the future, but Su Mu is already a successful person, and Ferrari is driving slowly from the campus road, attracting a lot of attention.

A few days ago, at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., the hypertext link protocol was initially formulated, and the World Communications Network Alliance was established; after the completion of the two, it is already possible to develop server and terminal programs, but if you want it to spread all over the world, you still need the cooperation of many parties, such as the Internet Engineering Working Group, an official organization with great influence in the Internet industry.

After applying for a patent that day and ending the seminar, two professors from Harvard University invited Su Mu to come to Harvard to complete the specific development work, there are equipment, talents, Su Mu also spent money to hire some programmers, plus several employees of Spider, to come to Harvard together.

Several very idle Internet experts also followed, never mentioning the remuneration, only hoping that the CNC alliance could be put into use as soon as possible, and also helped invite experts to help with development.

Su Mu had almost nothing to do while staying here, including professors at Harvard University, who had already volunteered to help him deal with it.

This saved Su Mu a lot of trouble, he was not an expert in this area after all, and after coming up with a feasible idea, he needed someone to help him really realize it.

When I came to the Department of Computer Engineering, I walked upstairs and entered a specially vacated classroom, with desks full of computers, nearly forty people in the classroom, people talking, programmers discussing the wrong code on the client and server, everything is new, and the rules need to be customized to improve.

In Internet Transport Protocol, "client" and "server" are relative concepts, which exist only for a specific connection period, and are divided into four processes: establishing a connection, sending a request message, sending a response message, and closing the connection.

This is a completely new concept, which previously only existed in the fuzzy theory, and each computer can be a client or become a computer, so there is no need for Su Mu to invest too much hardware equipment in the initial stage.

He has patents and needs to be responsible for maintaining the development of CNC in the future, so he called the assistant of Mr. Larry Ellison of Oracle yesterday, who had dealt with this company before, and tried to purchase servers and supporting enterprise software for this company that has not yet been established, but today Mr. Ellison personally rushed over, and he is in the classroom at the moment.

It is not difficult to develop programs that can be used, but the main difficulty is how to promote them, so that the standards they develop become global standards, so Su Mu also found the Internet engineering working group, and countless experts from scientific research institutions and top universities are in this organization, specifically responsible for the development and promotion of Internet standards.

In addition, the NSF network, which currently has the most users, also sent experts, this network is controlled and maintained by the National Science Foundation of the United States, in the process of formulating standards, Su Mu said that it does not count, all parties agree to become a real label, several professors at Harvard University, have helped to contact major institutions, of course, the conference fee is paid by him privately.

After the idea was proposed, the patent was registered, and the status of Sumu was greatly improved, and after greeting the people present, he briefly introduced the progress of the development work, and so far everything has gone well.

On the Greyhound bus to Silicon Valley in 1984, he first heard about Oracle and Larry Ellison from James.

At the time, Su Mu didn't even know what the company called "Oracle" was doing, and now, just a few years later, its market value has soared to $3.5 billion.

In other words, if you invested $100 at that time, it is now worth about $4,000, and the market value has increased 40 times in four years, and it is still growing at a super high speed.

Similarly, at that time, Su Mu only had more than 20,000 dollars in his pocket, but now he has become a billionaire, and now Silicon Valley is what people call the "cradle of billionaires", and a billionaire can be born almost every month, causing people to frantically pour in, and no one knows if he will be the next to get rich.

Opportunities are everywhere, and it's just up to people to seize them.

Su Mu and Mr. Larry Ellison joked about it, and the other smiled and shook their heads: "If you used all your money to buy my company's stock a few years ago, now you are only a millionaire at most, isn't your fate really amazing?"

"It's really amazing, I feel like I've suddenly come to this point, and I can still remember the scene of the day my roommate was fired by you. ”

"Hahaha, I've fired too many people, I can't remember how many, but I hope he finds a more satisfying job.

I just heard your idea from a friend yesterday, it's very good! I think this is the future of the Internet, this time you find our company to customize the server, you will definitely fully cooperate, the price can be slightly cheaper. ”

Ellison was half joking and half serious, he was about the same age as Su Dingcai, patted Su Mu on the shoulder like an elder, and asked him, "In addition, I will buy you the right to use the patent for 30 million dollars, what do you think?" Or sell the patent directly to me, you can give you 30 million dollars, plus 5% of Oracle shares. ”

"I only got a phone call telling me that there were no duplicate patents, that I had entered the next review process, that I hadn't gotten it yet, and that I would talk about it later, Mr. Ellison, and that your company was great. ”

Su Mu politely refused.

Ellison was the first businessman to come to the door to seek cooperation, and he opened his mouth to offer more than $200 million, indicating that in his heart this patent was worth so much money.

If it was eighty-four or eighty-five years, Su Mu might have sold it, but now he is not short of money, and his vision has become more long-term, in order to expand the market, he would rather not make money for ten years is the best proof, and he has begun to mature, no longer staring at the small profits in front of him.

I have long calculated in my mind that if there are 10 billion US dollars in market profits, then by then we can earn 500 million US dollars by virtue of patents, and if it is 100 billion US dollars, it will be 5 billion US dollars.

The old radio station often says that if an Internet company is tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars, the market must be very large, otherwise it will not be able to support such a terrible market value.

Now that he knows that the Internet will become a key technology to change the world for a long time in the future, Su Mu's brain will only be sold if it is caught by the door.

As for authorization, that is cultivating opponents, and it is impossible to agree.......