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I won't bother to edit again. The SSO patent is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnu

I won't bother to edit again. The SSO patent is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,631,346.PN.&OS=PN/7,631,346&RS=PN/7,631,346 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... Filed in 2005 (on April Fool's day no less!) and published in 2006. It looks like the strongest of the 4 patents. The other ones look pretty weak to me. The first 2 (from 1989!!!) seem to be discussing displaying cached data on a monitor... I couldn't actually get much sense from it. The third one seems to be describing a cookie... But it's pretty darn general. Not an expert in patents by any stretch of the imagination, though...

brightball 8y ago
I remember sitting in on a meeting where an “enterprise” consultant was trying to sell the telecom I worked for at the time on a single sign on system that worked by wrapping intranet sites in a frame with a shared cookie. He insisted on calling the cookie a secure token so it would seem different. Asking price? $100k Wouldn’t shock me if it was related.
- kevinSuttle 8y ago
  Oh man. [Enterprise PTSD intensifies]
- yayana 8y ago
  Hmm, aside from the triviality, it sounds like they may also have patented pre-existing art in 2006 then.. I-Planet portal server can be traced back through Webtop to Pony Express.. It was one of several competitors in the late 1990s, and I think they all provided this style of SSO.
- sk5t 8y ago
  Only $100k? That is much, much less than a big ol' intrusive SiteMinder or BMC project. In fact, it's so cheap as to cast serious doubt on the consultant's credibility. And I am already assuming this happened about 15 years ago.
bluedevil2k 8y ago
If it’s from the late 80’s, how is the patent still enforceable? 20 years right?
- asah 8y ago
  ...from the date of issuance. They're called "submarine" patents when the applicant intentionally delays issuance to get more years of life out of them. https://www.google.com/search?q=submarine+patents https://www.google.com/search?q=submarine+patents

brightball 8y ago

I remember sitting in on a meeting where an “enterprise” consultant was trying to sell the telecom I worked for at the time on a single sign on system that worked by wrapping intranet sites in a frame with a shared cookie. He insisted on calling the cookie a secure token so it would seem different. Asking price? $100k Wouldn’t shock me if it was related.

kevinSuttle 8y ago
Oh man. [Enterprise PTSD intensifies]
yayana 8y ago
Hmm, aside from the triviality, it sounds like they may also have patented pre-existing art in 2006 then.. I-Planet portal server can be traced back through Webtop to Pony Express.. It was one of several competitors in the late 1990s, and I think they all provided this style of SSO.
sk5t 8y ago
Only $100k? That is much, much less than a big ol' intrusive SiteMinder or BMC project. In fact, it's so cheap as to cast serious doubt on the consultant's credibility. And I am already assuming this happened about 15 years ago.

bluedevil2k 8y ago

If it’s from the late 80’s, how is the patent still enforceable? 20 years right?

asah 8y ago
...from the date of issuance. They're called "submarine" patents when the applicant intentionally delays issuance to get more years of life out of them. https://www.google.com/search?q=submarine+patents https://www.google.com/search?q=submarine+patents