Re: [Patents] Recently filed M$ patents

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> Do you know these ones, from M$ :

see also the complete and regularly updated listing of M$ EPO patents at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/players/microsoft/#epat

The ones listed below are relatively recent and have not been granted. Yet
experience until now is that the EPO grants about 90% of what is
submitted.  They are of course happy to enlist us as unpaid prior-art
searchers, but that only eliminates some patents on the basis of luck,
not on the basis of more or less merit.

> * 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...
>
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