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

How would anyone know? 

Given that Yahoo is a member of the W3C, it cannot affect the w3c standards, since they signed up to a no patent policy. 

On 13 Mar 2012, at 13:54, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> You may have seen in the news facebook are getting sued for using the following "patented" technology
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> 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
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> Abstract
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>  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.
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> Does this affect Linked Open Data too?

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