Hm, I tried WikiPatents, but it doesn't seem to have an entry for the patent. And the USPTO's ironically-named "Peer-to-Patent" pilot program has concluded and isn't taking new applications.
-david EdPimentl wrote: > Let the PTO know of prior arts and keep discussing in the list as prior > arts. > > -E > > > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com > <mailto:dbarr...@quinthar.com>> wrote: > > Or, to be more accurate, some Microsoft chump patented something that > was pretty obvious to me at the time, and probably obvious to a bunch of > others. More interestingly, he did it years after I open-sourced my > iGlance application *and* presented the exact algorithm at Codecon, the > premiere P2P conference of the time. > > It's patent #20080205288, named "Concurrent connection testing for > computation of NAT timeout period". It's abstract is: > > > Concurrent testing of NAT connections using different timeout > values to compute a keep-alive value for the NAT device. Computation > of the approximate timeout value is accomplished concurrently over > multiple test connections within about a time equivalent to the > actual NAT timeout value. The architecture validates the computation > of the approximate timeout value by distinguishing NAT connection > failure from external failure using a control connection. Moreover, > computation of the keep-alive value is performed only once for a > given NAT device rather than being an on-going process for that NAT > device. When one of the test connections fails, it is determined > that the NAT timeout value is less than the test timeout value > associated with the failed test connection. Accordingly, a smaller > test timeout value is then selected as the keep-alive value for > keep-alive processing of the NAT device. > > > This sounds remarkably similar to the discussions we've had on this list > over the years (including very recently), and that is available in my > iGlance application here: > > http://www.iglance.com/ > > Also, note that iGlance has been open source since 2005 -- you can > download a 2006 snapshot of the code tree here: > > http://www.iglance.com/code.html > > You can also see iGlance in the 2006 CodeCon schedule here: > > http://codecon.org/2006/program.html#iglance > > > Can anybody suggest a good place to record prior art (other than this > list) such that if anybody wants to contest this patent in the future > they'll be able to easily find it? > > -david > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com <mailto:p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com> > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
