HEAD TO HEAD

Agricultural Bank of ChinaBroadcomMicrosoft

Technology portfolios compared in the same window and counting units. Scale is compared only within the same field or subclass.

Same window · published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31Some name or date coverage is incomplete; affected counts are lower bounds

This is a structural comparison of collected portfolios. The same requested window does not establish equal entity scope, covered months or industry; no competitive ranking is inferred.

Applicant-name coverage differs. The counts below cover only the listed names and do not represent complete company portfolios.

Agricultural Bank of China: Applicant names included in these statistics — AGRICULTURAL BANK CHINAReviewed names not covered — AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED · 中国农业银行股份有限公司

Broadcom: Applicant names included in these statistics — AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD · VMWARE INC · VMWARE LLCReviewed names not covered — AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED · VMWARE INC.

Microsoft: Applicant names included in these statistics — MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCReviewed names not covered — MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

Agricultural Bank of China

Publications: 1,619
Invention share: 99%
Concentration: 0.78
Green technology: —

Broadcom

Publications: 1,230
Invention share: 98%
Concentration: 0.41
Green technology: —

Microsoft

Publications: 7,140
Invention share: 97%
Concentration: 0.59
Green technology: —

0.76

Agricultural Bank of China × Broadcom

0.95

Agricultural Bank of China × Microsoft

0.85

Broadcom × Microsoft

Cosine similarity of application counts across 35 fields. 1 is identical, 0 is no overlap.

01Technology field mirror

The 12 fields with the largest combined share. Share shows structure; count shows scale.

Technology field mirror
Technology field	Agricultural Bank of China / Broadcom / Microsoft
Computer technology	81.2% 42.4% 72.5%
Digital communication	18.4% 45.2% 22.4%
IT methods for management	29.5% 0.4% 4.2%
Audio-visual technology	1.2% 3.1% 10.5%
Basic communication processes	0.1% 10.9% 1.3%
Telecommunications	1.1% 5.8% 3.3%
Semiconductors	0% 7.4% 2.1%
Optics	0.1% 1.4% 3.8%
Measurement	0.4% 2.5% 2.1%
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy	0.3% 1.8% 2.1%
Control	1.2% 0.5% 1%
Furniture, games	0.1% 0% 1%

Inspect one technology field

Inspect collected applications, portfolio share and supporting publications within one field. A technology overlap does not establish that companies in different industries are direct competitors.

Technology field to inspect

Agricultural Bank of China

Collected applications: 5
Share of collected applications with IPC: 0.3%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

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Broadcom

Collected applications: 21
Share of collected applications with IPC: 1.8%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

View Broadcom publications in this field

Microsoft

Collected applications: 147
Share of collected applications with IPC: 2.1%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

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One application may belong to multiple fields, so shares can sum to more than 100%. Drill-down lists publications; an application publication and its grant may appear separately.

02Same problem: shared IPC subclasses

The 10 subclasses in every company's top 60 with the most combined applications. Scale is compared within a subclass, never across different business scopes.

G06FData processing

Agricultural Bank of China1,085

Broadcom456

Microsoft3,890

H04LDigital transmission

Agricultural Bank of China284

Broadcom439

Microsoft1,379

G06NComputing models, AI

Agricultural Bank of China524

Broadcom28

Microsoft1,064

G06QBusiness data processing

Agricultural Bank of China478

Broadcom5

Microsoft290

G06TImage processing

Agricultural Bank of China64

Broadcom7

Microsoft479

H04NPictorial communication, video

Agricultural Bank of China21

Broadcom20

Microsoft482

G06VImage and video recognition

Agricultural Bank of China152

Broadcom4

Microsoft295

H04WWireless networks

Agricultural Bank of China10

Broadcom126

Microsoft196

G10LSpeech processing

Agricultural Bank of China19

Broadcom2

Microsoft250

G02BOptical elements

Agricultural Bank of China1

Broadcom14

Microsoft236

03Where each one leans

Observed emphasis within each company’s collected top-60 IPC subclasses. A dash for another company means outside its top-60 list, not zero applications or a market gap. Incomplete coverage can also change the ordering.