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Because the patent doesn't seem to apply to servers i.e. it specifically refers to client devices attributes. The original use case for the Apple patent was th
by taligent 14y ago
Because the patent doesn't seem to apply to servers i.e. it specifically refers to client devices attributes.
The original use case for the Apple patent was the Sherlock search feature back in OS 8.5 (1998) which utilised a plugin system. IIRC it was a unique feature as not even search engines e.g. Altavista were doing multi source search at that time.
I can't imagine it would be hard to find prior art for it though.
- kalleboo 14y agoI remember Sherlock being widely derided as a ripoff of the shareware app "Watson". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson
- taligent 14y agoI remember that time. The newer version of Sherlock was but they still had the core plugin based search approach in place before that.