[Am-info] Microsoft Patents

Joe Moore Joe.Moore@sdrc.com
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:52:39 -0500


If you are interested in seeing what Microsoft has patented, the RedHat
Tunney comment has a list of some 1400 patents registered to Microsoft in
the Operating System or Middleware classes.

Some of them are quite interesting, such as:
6327705 Method for creating and maintaining user data 04-Dec-01 
6292822 Dynamic load balancing among processors in a parallel computer 18-Sep-01
6285998 System and method for generating reusable database queries 04-Sep-01
6278448 Composite Web page built from any web content 21-Aug-01
6260043 Automatic file format converter 10-Jul-01

--Joe
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