[ flighter_022 @ 07.05.2010. 14:08 ] @
http://www.networkworld.com/co...NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2010-05-07

Citat:
On Tuesday, Microsoft was awarded a U.S. patent for "portable applications." The description of this innovative technology? Running an executable file from a flash device.

More specifically, portable applications are defined like this, according to the abstract in the patent documents.

"A portable storage device includes an interface and one or more flash memories. The one or more flash memories store one or more executable files that can be executed by a host computer to which the device is coupled without altering any environment settings on the host computer even though the one or more executable files include instructions to access environment settings. Additionally, the application is bound to the portable storage device during an activation process."

Does this, or does this not, sound an awful lot like running an application from a thumb drive instead of loading it onto your computer and running it from there?


No comment.
[ z@re @ 07.05.2010. 14:59 ] @
Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    printf("Microsoft patent violator evil program!\n");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


Code:

cc violator.c -o violator; chmod +x violator; mv violator /mnt/da0s1


[ mmix @ 07.05.2010. 15:18 ] @
Zar je moguce da ne postoji prior art za ovo?
[ Ivan Dimkovic @ 07.05.2010. 15:26 ] @
Opis patenta je apsolutno irelevantan. Jedina bitna stvar su TVRDNJE (claims).

Citati "abstract" i vikati "pa ovo je prior art" je potpuno besmisleno. A primetio sam da mnogi prave tu gresku. To je najobicnije zuto novinarstvo i ne doprinosi razumevanju problematike.

Apstrakti su uvek vrlo generalni i skoro pa nikad u njima nije navedena inovacija, vec se to radi kasnije.

Recimo, vi ste izmislili napredni sistem kocenja npr... Apstrakt ce sadrzati opis "Sistem za kocenje motornog vozila baziran na hidraulici". Naravno da postoji milion "sistema za kocenje motornog vozila baziranih na hidraulici" - ali to nije ono sto cini patent, vec patent cine individualne tvrdnje.

Ovo sto sam rekao nema veze uopste sa ovim patentom konkretno niti sa Microsoftom, vec uopste i to vazi za sve patente. Ako neko zeli da kritikuje neki patent, mora se fokusirati na tvrdnje.
[ mmix @ 07.05.2010. 15:56 ] @
Za claims sam i pitao.
United States Patent 7,712,086

Abstract uopste nije daleko od claims.

New low za softverske patente.
[ mulaz @ 07.05.2010. 21:50 ] @
Uvek kad pocnemo sa patentima, bas moram da nalepim ovaj link :))

http://www.google.com/patents?...=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
[ Daniel Fat @ 07.05.2010. 22:41 ] @
Ne znaš koji je smešniji. Mada onaj za mačke je mnogo dobar. Stimulisanje kortizola... Šta je sledeće patentiraće disanje (zamisli samo koliko bi ti ljudi plaćalo za tu privilegiju)?
[ xtraya @ 08.05.2010. 15:44 ] @
pffff.... ovaj mackasti je u top10 najjacih :)