From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream)
Date: 1999/12/02
Date: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82643t$d55$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3845FE4E.E54C9EEE@research.canon.com.au
In article <3845FE4E.E54C9EEE@research.canon.com.au>,
Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote:
> Kenneth Almquist wrote:
> >
> > The allegedly novel idea is to write the data in a
> > cannonical format, making it unnecessary to run conversion programs
> > when moving files or file systems.
>
> Not quite, as that would involve magic!
> I read it that the patent claims as novel the idea of
> transmitting data in a canonical format, so that the
> sender doesn't need to know the binary representation
> required by the receiver.
>
> This patent would cover any program that, for example,
> exchanges data in standard "network" order.
>
> As I said, I think XDR predates it, can anybody verify that?
The first edition ISO ASN.1 standard I have at my desk is dated 1987,
which places it 3 years before the patent was supposedly granted. (ISO
8824:1987(E) and 8825:1987(E))
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-28 0:00 Decoding an octet stream Florian Weimer
1999-11-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-03 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Numeric types Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
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