Such is the importance of a show like Mobile World Congress to a company like InterDigital that the mobile technology vendor spends a full third of its annual marketing budget on the event. At the show, InterDigital outlined a future in which its three main business verticals – wireless, video and IoT – will gradually converge. So, does convergence, which is arguably a visible trend already in many cases, mean fewer products, therefore less revenues, and ultimately a far smaller InterDigital in years to come? Not according to Patrick Van de Wille, the company’s chief communications officer, who believes this convergence will put InterDigital in prime position to deliver even more advanced developments to the standards bodies and academic organizations,…