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Many thanks for the link! If this patent is a problem, it is a a problem for ... Java ;-) Not for websevices. The 'original' article http://www.linuxgram.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/02/1754221§ion=186 ) says : "The thing is huge and so rife with implications it makes Charlie look like a visitor from the future. The average IBM patent - and IBM's patent library is legendary - runs 20 pages and makes 20 claims. Charlie's runs 144 pages and details an entire system, not just one particular piece of mojah. Charlie definitely gets an A+ in thoroughness. " Yeah, sure. And the Chalie's patent makes ... 11 ( or 2 ;-) claims. Not even 20. It also explains some basics of OSI model and TCP and has plenty of ( missing and I think useless ) pictures. "The thing is huge". 6 of 11 claims talk about 'loading'. "determining which selected Minor Services and communication primitives are presently loaded" And what is 'loading' ? "DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The various aspects of the present invention can be implemented on a digital computer running an operating system that supports runtime-loadable software modules, such as Unix SVR4.2 MP TLP/5 (Unix System Laboratories, a subsidiary of Novell Corporation). Such a computer may, for example, be a Gateway 2000 computer having an Intel 486 microprocessor, or any other hardware compatible with that operating system. Many other operating systems may alternatively be used, including SunSoft Solaris 2.X, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM's AIX, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, on any hardware compatible therewith. See, e.g. Solaris 2.2, SunOS 5.2 Reference Manual, Section 3, Library Routines (A-M) and (N-Z)(SunSoft Part No. 801-3954-10, Revision A, May 1993)." And that's it, actually ( then he goes into 'detailes'). He-he. As usual, as it is with any bad patent, it is not easy to understand what he is talking about, but I guess that 'in general' he actually talks about some kind of 'Corba / RMI implemented with DLLs'. 'Components on steroids'. Not bad, actually. But nobody has done it, actually. I think Sun is the only company going into that direction with Java ( Applets, RMI, JMS, JNDI - cool stuff ;-). 'In particular' - the patent talks about ... gosh ... make and nmake. This paper makes a problem to W3C-driven web-services ??? I think that's an example of bad journalizm more than example of anything else. I think that the patent was too broad because the guy had a fuzzy understanding of the resulting architecture. This document is a thread to *web* -services ??? It has no word 'URL' ( or even URI ;-) in it! Come on! The original article *is* a joke! Rgds.Paul. > Here's the link you're looking for: > http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml > /search-adv.htm&r=6&f=G&l=50&d=FT00&p=1&S1=5,850,518&OS=5,850,518&RS=5,850,5 18
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