I took the time to paraphrase and simplify the claim part of the patent application in question just so that I could understand it myself. As far as I can see from my reading of the application, the patent only affects plugins that occupy part and only part of the browser window, the rest of the window being occupied by the containing html document. Thus applications like Adobe Acrobat Reader that completely take over the browser window are not affected. Does anyone disagree with this? I published the paraphrase on http://www.toplev.com:8080/Miscellaneous/Patent.htm. Steve BrimleyReceived on Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:58:48 GMT
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