[Am-info] Microsoft Patents

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:52:39 -0500, Joe Moore wrote:

>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
>

Looks like they have patents on *processes*, which may not be the
optimal way to do those things, or they're just unique to Windows.

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Erick Andrews