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I'm currently examining the following patent proposing the use of mail quota. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=mFrNAAAAEBAJ&dq=spam+mail+quota http://www.
by chmike 16y ago
I'm currently examining the following patent proposing the use of mail quota. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=mFrNAAAAEBAJ&dq=spam+mail+quota http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=mFrNAAAAEBAJ&dq=s... This patent is filed in 2000 and issued 10 years later ! In 2006 it was apparently extended to international. Does this mean the validity of the patent is 20 years starting from 2010, or is it from 2000 ? This is weird. Note that I'm in europe and don't know US patent particularities.
- cpeterso 16y agoIf email quota is patented, does that mean webmail providers like Gmail and Hotmail are no allowed to limit my email inbox size? :)
- chmike 16y agoThe quota is on the ongoing mail, not the storage. Many ISP are using this method to limit spams or virus propagation from their clients. I think google does it too. But this is not original. On the net I found Freedom, initially published 23 nov 1999 which includes outgoing mail quotas (http://www.homeport.org/~adam/zeroknowledgewhitepapers/arch-notech.pdf http://www.homeport.org/~adam/zeroknowledgewhitepapers/arch-...). For the initial date, check at the bottom.
- chmike 16y agoI ment outgoing mail. I can't edit anymore. Sorry.