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Before you panic, read the claims. From claim 1, the most limiting element I can see is: wherein said embed text format is parsed by said browser to automatica
by alain94040 15y ago
Before you panic, read the claims. From claim 1, the most limiting element I can see is:
wherein said embed text format is parsed by said browser to automatically invoke said executable application to execute on said client workstation
So you are potentially in trouble only if you use text format to point to an executable that you then load to the client.
Indeed, what we used to do on the Internet around 1993 (Gopher, listserv, X11 remote), is not quite exactly the same.
So yes, maybe Java applets and Flash plugins are in trouble (although I don't really think so). Everything else, no worries.
PS: I just checked the patent date: Oct 1994, not 1993. By then, I remember we were already launching live videos from web links... Sounds like prior art to me.
- uxp 15y agoThere's a bit of a problem, however. The patent (5,838,906) has already been nullified, and then subsequently reinstated on an appeal. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/eolas_web_patent_nullified/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/eolas_web_patent_nul... Tim Berners-Lee has already written about it: http://www.w3.org/2003/10/27-rogan.html http://www.w3.org/2003/10/27-rogan.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/30/bernerslee_comes_out_fighting/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/30/bernerslee_comes_out... This is still a pretty interesting fight. It might do you some good to panic, just a little.
- arethuza 15y agoI wrote a framework for safely launching and controlling applications from web browsers in '93 - presented a paper on it at the first web conference at CERN in '94.