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| Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 11:27 PM EDT |
I read this patent slightly differently. See the bold parts.
1. A
method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of: creating a
message at a first computer, said message including a reference to a
predetermined location;
transmitting, by the first computer, said message to
a second location; and receiving said message by a computer at the second
location; decoding said message by the computer at the second location by
retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single
application, without requiring user interaction, into the computer at the second
location.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein:
said reference to a predetermined location is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
and said step of creating creates the message without including data
corresponding to the predetermined resource referenced by the
URL.
5. A method according to claim 4, wherein said decoding step
automatically retrieves the data from the predetermined location when a user
decodes the message without the user requesting the retrieval of the data
corresponding to the URL.
It is not just putting a URL in a
message. The mail client of the receiver must also follow the URL, get the
additional the information and display it automatically without user
intervention. Without this additional step the patent is not infringed.
This
doesn't make the patent less stupid IMHO. URLs are meant to be followed by
programs to display information. That what they have been created for. The
"invention" is that an email client does it automatically instead of typing the
URL in a web browser. Duh! I can't imagine why this isn't obvious.
But if
we want to be fair and accurate, we should point out there is a little more to
this patent than just putting a URL in a message.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 07:10 PM EDT |
I do not know how to communicate the following to Motorola's attorneys. I hope
someone else in this forum can do that.
If U.S. Patent No. 5,790,793 is indeed about putting a URI into an E-mail
message, then the patent is invalid under the principle of "prior
invention".
I am still using an old version of Eudora Lite for my E-mail. This version has
the capability of putting an URI into an E-mail message to be sent and also
allowing me to select a URI in a received E-mail message and obtain the
indicated Web page.
U.S. Patent No. 5,790,793 was issued in 1998. However, my old version 3.0.6 of
Eudora Lite was distributed not later than 1997. Furthermore, the URI
capability existed in prior versions of Eudora Lite.
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