[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: patent application (MSFT)--some prior art?
I just did a search on RPC and got this--close parallels obviously. maybe adaptec will be filing a suit sometime soon? I think I am going to go and register my patent for one click web shopping now-- US5926636: Remote procedural call component management method for a heterogeneous computer network. Assignee: Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA other patents from ADAPTEC, INC. (approx. 253) Published / Filed: July 20, 1999 / Feb. 21, 1996 In response to a component management function call by a remote client application, the component management application programming interface (API) generates a message that identifies the called function and the version of the component management API. The component management API calls a local message transfer RPC command to send the message to a RPC command module. The RPC command module processes the local message transfer RPC command, and packages the message for transfer as a RPC over the heterogenous network. The RPC command module sends the packaged RPC to a network stack which in turn transmits the packaged RPC over the heterogenous network to a network stack in the server computer. The server network stack provides the packaged RPC to a server RPC command module that unpacks the RPC in a conventional manner to obtain the original message. The message is passed to a server component management API. The server component management API parses the message to determine the computer architecture of the client computer. With this information, server component management API reads the version specified in the message. If the specified version is incompatible with the version of the server component management API, a reply indicating the version incompatibility is transmitted to remote client application and otherwise the message is processed further by the server component management API. James Governor RedMonk (+44) 207 254 7371 -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Greif [mailto:jgreif@a...] Sent: 11 February 2003 17:43 To: lauren@t...; XML Dev Subject: Re: patent application (MSFT) It came up in connection with another seemingly broad patent several years ago, IIRC, that the authors of the patent application are obligated to revise their application to reference claims of prior art that are reported to them before the patent is awarded and jeopardize the validity of any awarded patent if they fail to do so. IIRC, this applies only before the patent is granted. Presumably the sites mentioned by Lauren Wood are aware of this. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lauren Wood" <lauren@t...> To: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: RE: patent application (MSFT) > There's a site, IP.com, which claims to publish prior art for the > benefit of patent offices worldwide, and to "have relations with > various patent offices in order to allow them easier access to our > data". They claim the USPTO is a subscriber, as well as various other > organisations. Mind you, it only helps for those things that were > published with them early enough. > > I had heard of some other web site collecting prior art but can't > find the URL. > > Lauren > > On 11 Feb 2003 at 9:23, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > > Understood. I'm not sure how one goes about > > influencing a patent application. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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