Re: Yahoo! patent 7,747,648 court case

The rub is in the use of mathematical models and computer science derived modeling being patented for a specific use whereas the models themselves tend to be of a more general nature.

The same goes for algorithms.

Look at the UN ICT program Global Pulse at ww.unglobalpulse.org.
I wonder if Yahoo! will sue the UN for obvious and inevitable use of world models involving real-world persons.

 
The business model implied in the patent is contrary to the innate functioning of the Internet, opposes open linking and networking and now evolving business models.

By the way where the heck does the USPTO recruit its technical staff. A specific instance model cannot be used to patent all its siblings (homomorphic and isomorphic).

E.g. is the automobile industry also going to be targeted when smart cars are developed with fully integrated sensors, circuitry etc. to enable a smart car "intranet interface" for the real world?


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________________________________
 From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
To: public-lod@w3.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:54 AM
Subject: Yahoo! patent 7,747,648 court case
 

You may have seen in the news facebook are getting sued for using the following "patented" technology

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/7747648%0A

Abstract

 Systems and methods for information retrieval and 
communication employ a world model. The world model is made up of 
interrelated entity models, each of which corresponds to an entity in 
the real world, such as a person, place, business, other tangible thing,
 community, event, or thought. Each entity model provides a 
communication channel via which a user can contact a real-world person 
responsible for that entity model. Entity models also provide feedback 
information, enabling users to easily share their experiences and 
opinions of the corresponding real-world entity.



Does this affect Linked Open Data too?