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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 05:46 PM EST |
This patent is so dang broad and generic, I wouldn't be so
certain that Ubuntu is in the clear. Honestly though, when I
read through the patent, I'm immediately reminded of using
GNU find and/or locate on my computer with NFS shares.
That's been done for how many decades?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 02:59 AM EST |
The present invention provides convenient access to items of
information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of
a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of
locations, through a number of different techniques. Using a plurality of
heuristic algorithms to operate upon information descriptors input by the user,
the present invention locates and displays candidate items of information for
selection and/or retrieval. Thus, the advantages of a search engine can be
exploited, while listing only relevant object candidate items of
information.
However, the techniques have to be applied to
searching the information and that can only be done where the information is,
i.e. at the variety of locations other than the location of the
interface.
The interface cannot access information in a variety of
locations, through a number of different techniques. It can only request
information and the remote location information servers use the different
techniques to provide the information.
The invented machine is
impossible to 'make' because the components of the invention cannot be put into
the one machine. The totality of the invented machine is defined as
existing in different locations and the components are general purpose
components not designed to fulfil the invented machine functions.
In
this case, the 'interface' is a mobile phone made by the mobile phone
manufacturer. The information in the variety of locations is provided by a
multiplicity of content providers such as Google. None of these entities make,
sell, import or distribute the invention. The invention is only 'made' and
'used' when the user makes the phone communicate with more that one information
provider in different locations using a number of different filtering
techniques.
This is the same devastating fail as in the Allen v. World
patents.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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