I see that it is dated April 6, 2006. is this the date of application
or the date that it was granted?
Filed: October 1, 2004
I would then assume that is the granted date, either way it was most
certainly not filed before the 5 year mark that Paul mentioned.
Seablade
http://www.freshpatents.com/Low-latency-real-time-audio-streaming-dt20060406ptan20060074637.php?type=description
in which Microsoft patents designs partially implemented by OSS 10 years
ago and fully implemented by ALSA 5 years ago. Wrapping this up in
windows API nonsense obscures the basic fact
here's the uspto page for it:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01p=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220060074637%22.PGNR.OS=DN/20060074637RS=DN/20060074637
I see that it is dated April 6, 2006. is this the date of application
or the date that