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Search Patent Prior Art?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:28 AM EDT
Also see this:

http://webglimpse.net/pubs/udi.ps

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Prior Art for Search? BeOS Tracker!
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:50 PM EDT
Universal Search now being exploited by Apple is a farce.
The patent was applied for during during the time they were
developing Spotlight with ideas stolen from BeOS Tracker
Search tool. That since BeOS was so pervasively multi-
tasking running directly on a file system best described as
a Database, could use it's Tracker Engine(explorer engine on
Windows) to simultaneously search multiple locations and
instantly display a list of them. Including items located on
the network or Internet via NetPositive.

The 64bit BeOS file systems was the main reason it didn't
have to cache directories, because that's what the file
system was in the first place. So on old slow hardware,
tracker could instantly locate anything, w/o further
refinement than a few letters in the file name. Even when
the size of those drives could be unlimited.

We are talking about a genius of file systems and file
trackers (search tools) who were eventually hired by Apple
to rewrite their file system and make Spotlight the premier
search tool of OS-X!

Although he claimed to have written a better system for
them, he recently admitted (among others) that Apple's file
system and search was a mess. But blames that on them
wanting to keep it backwards compatible instead of moving to
a database style file system like BeOS had. Microsoft too...
had ripped off the BFS BeOS file system for use in WinFS.
But they ended up dropping it for the same reasons as Apple,
non compatibility issues.

Obviously, since Spotlight came out as OS-X's Universal
Search entry at the height of Search Engine Wars, they would
base iOS's integrated Search on a patent that should have
never been granted in the first place. Because first of all
it had nothing more than ideas and claims in it, on
technology that by that time, Universal Search both on and
off a device has become mainstream. Prior Art for which all
began on BeOS with Tracker Project (like Finder but better)!

If this lame ignorant Judge Lucy Koh allows any of the four
patents to be court stamped as valid, innovation and it's
benefits to consumers will be DEAD. In it's place will be
any Honorable judge's worst nightmare with a deluge of
patents that should never have been granted in the first
place taken up their docket time!

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