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RE: Small company makes big claims on XML patents

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <len.bullard@i...>,<ian.graham@u...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Small company makes big claims on XML patents
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:59:30 +0100
• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE072075BB@h...>
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Given that a "computer" used to mean a person who did calculations, I think
there is prior art in the way the Egyptians organised the payment of workers
7000 years ago.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] 
> Sent: 21 October 2005 22:31
> To: 'ian.graham@u...'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Small company makes big claims on XML patents
> 
> Heck, we might as well enjoy this.  A fellow posted the 
> first essential claim on cNet.  Here it is.  The game 
> here is to play patent reviewer and given prior art 
> you approve, review these claims.
> 
> We should carry this over to XML 2005 as such claims 
> actually do influence town hall discussions such as 
> <shamelessPlug>XML Document formats</shamelessPlug>.
> 
> I suspect that gencode systems (circa 1967-69) alone can 
> beat most of these but be careful because these guys 
> claimed more than XML actually does.
> 
> The claims are:
> 
> 1. A method of organizing and storing a set of information in 
> neutral form
> in a computer based environment comprising the steps of:
> 
> a) organizing the set of information into instance data sets;
> 
> b) defining a time basis for the collection of instance data sets;
> 
> c) organizing each instance data set into an instance cluster 
> comprised of
> data instance nodes;
> 
> d) assigning to each data instance node in an instance cluster a
> distinguishing structural tag comprising the following three 
> components:
> 
> a data reference;
> 
> a data type;
> 
> a data organization;
> 
> e) defining the components of the structural tag for each 
> data value in each
> instance cluster;
> 
> f) assigning properties of the data value to each structural tag;
> 
> g) storing the names of all of the structural tag elements 
> together with
> their respective definitions and properties in a suitable format;
> 
> h) combining each data value and its respective structural 
> tag to form a
> neutral form expression of the data; and
> 
> i) storing the resultant neutral form expression of the data value.
> 
> Let the game begin.
> 
> len
> 
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