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Of course, even if it's limited to the exchange provided by XMLHttpRequest, the proto-AJAX technology was released as an ActiveX object in 1999: http://en.wikip
by warfangle 17y ago
Of course, even if it's limited to the exchange provided by XMLHttpRequest, the proto-AJAX technology was released as an ActiveX object in 1999: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmlhttprequest#History_and_support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmlhttprequest#History_and_supp...
So, considering that they filed this patent in 2002, there are three years of prior art to consider.
- n8agrin 17y agoI completely agree. How could this point have been missed by the USPTO? Does copyright really not factor into patent decisions? It's infuriating.
- warfangle 17y agoI sillily responded prior to reading the sitepoint link - that is a much better article than the OP.
- ynniv 17y agoJust to keep the dates straight, application 09/075,359 was a continuation of application 08/324,443, which was filed Oct 17, 1994.