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My first thought on reviewing the patent was that Microsoft was patenting Java. Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Perhaps this is an unfortunate fifth birthday present for XML: > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d= > PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR > ..&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685 > > (from news.com: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html) > > It appears to be a patent application on .NET and the CLR, but XML (and > later namespaces) is mentioned repeatedly, within a scope that seems to > keep growing. For starters, the first claim is: > > >>1. A software architecture for a distributed computing system >>comprising: an application configured to handle requests submitted by >>remote devices over a network; and an application program interface to >>present functions used by the application to access network and >>computing resources of the distributed computing system. > > > and then we see: > >>4. A software architecture as recited in claim 1, wherein the >>application program interface comprises: a first group of services >>related to creating Web applications; a second group of services >>related to constructing client applications; a third group of services >>related to data and handling XML documents; and a fourth group of >>services related to base class libraries. >> >>5. An application program interface embodied on one or more computer >>readable media, comprising: a first group of services related to >>creating Web applications; a second group of services related to >>constructing client applications; a third group of services related to >>data and handling XML documents; and a fourth group of services >>related to base class libraries. > > > These sound an awful lot like XML-oriented projects I have written and > am writing. Anyone more knowledgeable than me have an explanation? >
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