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From: matt@proweb.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] microsoft patent
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:36:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d53804b2270dec4f980d22461a9fb4c@juice.thebigchoice.com> (raw)

In a story on TheRegsiter today it mentions a Microsoft patent that was filed in 2004 for "a common namespace for Internet and local filesystem objects"

http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/36520.html

here's the patent application in question

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=20020188758.PGNR.&OS=DN/20020188758&RS=DN/20020188758

it starts out with 'document browser' but gets a bit more specific

I know next to nothing about patent stuff but I just thought it might be relevant to someone.

Though their description of the problem does show how convoluted their OS is :)

m



             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-25 15:36 matt [this message]
2004-03-25 16:53 ` ron minnich
2004-03-25 19:02   ` 9nut

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