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In recent years, patent information has become increasingly important for technological research and development (R&D) of corporations, and has thus received growing emphasis from corporations.Through patent analysis, technological R&D personnel can not only gain information of current R&D technology, but also observe R&D strategies of competitors. In view of the growing popularity of third-party payment, this study uses third-party payment as the technical subject and draws the technical function matrix through inductive reasoning of the technics and functions of the field to investigate the development process and future direction of the street view processing technology. This study analyzes the patent trend of third-party payment by using the Chinese patent database(SIPO) to search for relevant third-party payment technology patents and analyzing the trend of patent activity and major players of the past years through statistical charts. The global patent layout strategies of major patent applicants are then explored through the analysis of their patent families. Moreover, the direction of technological R&D of Alibaba, the major Chinese third-party payment patent applicant, is investigated through manual interpretation of its relevant patent documents. The results are provided to the industry as reference for future technological development. Analysis results are summarized as follows: (1)Third-Party Payment technics is growing, and the patent numbers show a steady condition. (2)The main patent applicants of third-party payment in China adopt two methods in the international patent distribution strategy : The first one is to enter the countries through the PCT patent system, and then choose the country to be deployed; the second is to apply for China first.Then claim the international priority on the date of China's filing, after which some directly entered the country and some countries. After entering the country through the PCT patent system application. (3)Among these major patent applicants of third-party payment technics development, Alibaba is the first place, second is Tencent. The technical classification distributes in data transmission, data processing and Identity recognition. (4)Alibaba is the top leader all over the China, The "data processing" technology is the focus of its patent layout.
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