Recently filed M$ patents

[Francois PELLEGRINI <pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Do you know these ones, from M$ :

Not granted yet, but filed.

* EP1280058
  Method and system for creating and employing an operating system
  having selected functionality

  Patents all of an OS installation process.
  The claims are hilarious... if not granted !

* EP1236081
  SYSTEM, METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR ACTIVE READING OF ELECTRONIC
  CONTENT
  Covers e-book annotation of documents

* EP1287636
  ENFORCEMENT ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

  Covers all distant licence control

* EP1259863
  STRUCTURE OF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) SYSTEM

  Even more...

* EP1278184
  Method for coding speech and music signals
  (also exists as US patent)

* EP1277322
  DEVICE DRIVER GENERATION

* EP1271877
  Wireless browser

  Piece of crap, with handdrawn figures, which
  should either make Opera laugh or cry...

* EP1271315
  Run queue management
  EP1271314
  Sleep queue management for operating systems

  Re-visited basic techniques...

* EP1271279
  Binding a digital license to a portable device or the like in a
  digital rights management (DRM) system

* EP1269353
  TRANSACTIONAL FILE SYSTEM
  One layer on top of, eg, NTSF, to handle transactional updates

* EP1256212
  SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA OVER A NETWORK

* EP1246061
  A serverless distributed file system

  Kazaa, Beware !


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By the way, a friend of mine visited M$ labs recently.
On their desks, people have small, nicely decorated,
marble cubes. Each of them represents a filed patent,
and the game is to have the largest stack...


                                f.p.