Re: Here we go again.

SBC Communications claims they own a Patent on Internal links and Includes, 
whether or not they are in frames.

Of course the patent is hard to read.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,933,841.WKU.&OS=PN/5,933,841&RS=PN/5,933,841

At 06:20 PM 01/22/2003 -0800, Robin Liston wrote:

>--- Lead <lead(at)offlead.com> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:20:18 -0500
> > From: Lead <lead(at)offlead.com>
> > To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: Re: Here we go again.
> >
> > Quoting cbirds <cbirds(at)earthlink.net>:
> >
> > > I truly doubt they could enforce not using frames
> > what with all the
> > > internet to police......really.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, having missed the beginning of this
> > thread, I have a question. Has the
> > museumtour.com site discussed changed it's design?
> > Because I don't see any
> > frames on the museum site. The copy of the letter
> > from SBC that they have posted
> > on their site says:
> >
> > "We recently observed several useful navigation
> > features within the user
> > interface of your www.museumtour.com website. For
> > example, your site includes
> > several selectors or tabs that correspond to spcific
> > locations in your site
> > document. These selectors seem to reside in their
> > own frame or part of the user
> > interface. And, as such, the selectors are not lost
> > when a different part of the
> > document is displayed to the user."
> >
> > Now, the site I'm looking at does not utilize
> > frames. It does, however, appear
> > to be done in cold fusion, and the links are feeding
> > variable definitions to the
> > server side scripting. For example, the original
> > link to the site to read about
> > the SBC issue was:
> >
>http://www2.museumtour.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&pageid=430
> > . Now, is SBC
> > claiming then to have a patent on cold fusion sites?
> > Or just database driven
> > sites in general? *G* Or perhaps it's includes,
> > which place the same footers and
> > headers into each document generated by the
> > database? Navigation buttons?
> >
> > Cranky Jen :-)
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> >
> >
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