Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-06 Thread Edward B. Dreger
NB> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:44:11 +0200 NB> From: Niels Bakker NB> Axeda has no interest in finding prior art, they have an NB> interest in people paying them money, preferably without NB> having to go to court and possibly face defeat when their NB> emperor turns out to have not been in full dr

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward B. Dreger) [Thu 05 Aug 2004, 19:28 CEST]: [prior art] > So why are Axeda and USPTO oblivious to all this? The USPTO doesn't do due diligence research. This is only a small part of the reasons for the current patent mess, however. Axeda has no interest in finding prio

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > > > > so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990 > > is what? prior art? > > Or the first project that I was senior systems analyst, back in 1979, > all published and everything -- remote sensing in fa

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread Edward B. Dreger
SW> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:18:29 -0700 SW> From: Scott Whyte [snip] I think I'll patent SNMP traps as "low-bandwidth extensible DRM technology". Redirected cron output, EDI, RSS, too, while I'm at it. Looking at archive.org, it seems adventnet.com had XML-based notification before Axeda even

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread Eric Kimminau
I believe it is time to file the patent on a process for the induction of Oxygen for the purpose of converting molecular structure to energy resulting in the expulsion of CO2. -- -1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Eric Kimminau Email: [EMAIL

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > > so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990 > is what? prior art? Or the first project that I was senior systems analyst, back in 1979, all published and everything -- remote sensing in farmers' fields via satelli

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-04 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > > so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990 > is what? prior art? > as is every cron job running quota checks & mailing the results to system users.

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990 is what? prior art?

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Scott Whyte wrote: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,757,714.WKU.&OS=PN/6,757,714&RS=PN/6,757,714 Would avoiding use of XML be enough to circumvent this? -Dan

Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-04 Thread Scott Whyte
Thought this was relevent to nanog readership.. Abstract The state of an apparatus is reported to a remote computer using an embedded device in the apparatus. The embedded device detects the state, generates an electronic mail message that reports the state using a self-describing computer langu