RE: What a prior art product must do

I think you have a good point Christian,

The Virtual Machine and/or .NET Runtime does exist outside of the Browser,
but I guess a more low-level technical breakdown of how the Browser accesses
the Machine/Runtime would be helpful here.

Scanning quickly through some of the press stuff at
http://www.eolas.com/news.html I saw a few general references to the phrase
"applet" to imply that Java apps are supposedly covered in the Patent.

Obviously I haven't read the entire Patent Text, but a quick word search
doesn't return anything about "applet" or "java" or "virtual" (the Text
pre-dates .NET of course).

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=5,838,906.WKU.&OS=PN/5,838,906&RS=P
N/5,838,906

Is Eolas stretching their own interpretation?

Or is the simple act of invoking an external process from the Browser that
returns anything enough for the Patent?


This is the part that worries me. I don't actually use embedded objects as a
rule in my work, but I heavily rely on XML, specifically the client-side XML
Databinding support that MSIE has.

Using the HTML <XML/> element in MSIE, and ActiveXObject() via Jscript, I
routinely call external XML data and XSL files that are delivered
dynamically from a Server-side process.

Once the external data arrives back at the page that called it, user and/or
dynamic interaction occurs.

Could client-side XSLT be considered Hypermedia? It is a mixing of different
types of data for viewing in a Browser after all.

Any thoughts on whether this sort of stuff is at risk?

I sure wish we had more information....

Scott Cadillac,
XML-Extranet - http://xmlx.ca
403-281-6090 - scott@xmlx.ca
Well-formed Development
--
Extranet solutions using C# .NET, Witango, MSIE and XML


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-web-plugins-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-web-plugins-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> SerpentMage (Christian Gross)
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:36 AM
> To: Jake Robb
> Cc: W3C Public Web Plugins List
> Subject: Re: What a prior art product must do
> 
> 
> 
> Jake Robb wrote:
> 
> >The Java Virtual Machine and the Common Language Runtime 
> would count as
> >applications, which must be loaded in order for Java and 
> .NET code to run.
> >I think that voids your loophole.
> >
> Yes, but my point is that the runtime is loaded when the browser is 
> running.  Hence when the "plugin" runs the runtime will already be 
> running.  There is no additional executable to run...
> 
> Christian Gross
>

Received on Sunday, 31 August 2003 03:40:04 UTC