BS: Does DT infringe a patent ?

Subject: Does DT infringe a patent ?
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 29 May 00 - 01:11 PM

Here is a patent for "A remote access apparatus for providing end-user access through a human interface to a desired remote utility service on a remote host computer". The patent claims are complex, wordy, and repetetive but it seems to claim rights in at least some methods of downloading information from remote databases. According to this Slashdot discussion, the methods are those known as "POST" and "GET", though this is certainly not clear to me from reading the patent claims themselves.

Does the DT use either the POST or GET method ?

T.

Subject: RE: BS: Does DT infringe a patent ?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 May 00 - 05:31 PM

nope

Subject: RE: BS: Does DT infringe a patent ?
From:
Date: 29 May 00 - 05:32 PM

Okiemock, GET and POST are something that ANY internet site which processes information typed in by a user can potentially use. If they don't use the GET, etc method, they might use a Script of some sort, either Java or some such programming language.

If Mudcat does (and I think it does), Mudcat doesn't infringe on it.