Re: New Hewlett Packard patent may be a barrier to Semantic Web services adoption

Second askpatents.com.

Joel Spolsky <http://joelonsoftware.com> relates a story how he was able to
kill a Microsoft patent with 15 minutes of his time by showing prior art.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>wrote:

> I don't have a "legal department to challenge the patent", but in case it
> helps:
>
>   http://www.ninebynine.org/**SWAD-E/Scenario-HomeNetwork/**
> HomeNetworkConfig.html<http://www.ninebynine.org/SWAD-E/Scenario-HomeNetwork/HomeNetworkConfig.html>
>
> This was work I did around 2002-03, and includes use of RDF technologies
> to set access controls on a Cisco IOS router, which appears to correspond
> to the first primary claim of the patent:
>
> [[
> 1. An enforcement system for enforcing policies with regard to service
> requests comprising a processor-readable, non-transient medium storing code
> representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the
> processor to implement: a plurality of enforcer agents adapted to enforce
> policies; at least one explorer agent adapted to evaluate policy
> enforcement capabilities available to the enforcement system; and a policy
> decision point adapted to identify the policies that need to be enforced
> for a service request and to pass this information to at least one enforcer
> agent to enforce the identified policies.
> ]]
>
> I recall there was also an Internet draft published about this time that
> talked about using RDF in a network management control layer: see
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/**draft-atarashi-netconfmodel-**architecture-00<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-atarashi-netconfmodel-architecture-00>
> .
>
> #g
> --
>
>
>
> On 31/07/2013 20:15, Martin Hepp wrote:
>
>> Dear all:
>>
>> Yesterday, Hewlett Packard has been granted a patent on "Policy
>> Enforcement":
>>
>>         http://www.freepatentsonline.**com/8498959.html<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8498959.html>
>>         http://www.freepatentsonline.**com/8498959.pdf<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8498959.pdf>
>>
>> As far as I can see, it heavily constrains the commercial exploitation of
>> research done in the Semantic Web / Semantic Web Services community from
>> 2001-2009.
>>
>> So if you worked on policies in the context of Semantic Web Services or
>> Semantic Business Process Management before November 2009, it may be
>> worthwhile to check whether the patent claims inventions that you can prove
>> to have been prior art at that time.
>>
>> This may be particularly relevant for the organizers and contributors to
>> the various policy workshops co-located with ISWC/ESWC conferences.
>>
>> I am not familiar with the legal process, but if you feel this patent
>> claims what was already publicly known / discussed at conferences back
>> then, please ask your employer or legal department to challenge the patent.
>> It may otherwise put the usage of SWS in business applications at risk.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> ------------------------------**--------------------------
>> martin hepp
>> e-business & web science research group
>> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>