RE: What a prior art product must do

Don't helper applications display content in their own windows?

Richard

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From: public-web-plugins-request@w3.org [mailto:public-web-plugins-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Randers-Pehrson
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:28 AM
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Subject: Re: What a prior art product must do



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>Hi,
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>Looking over just claim #1 of the '906 patent, here's my reading what a
>product must do as a minimum to be prior art for the '906 patent:
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>1.  There must be a browser application that runs on a client computer.
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>2.  The browser must display documents which are supplied over
>    a network from a server computer.
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>3.  The browser must accept a command in a document to
>    display an embedded file which is also supplied by a server.
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>4.  An external program residing on the client computer is automatically
>    loaded and executed to display the embedded file within a designated
>area of the
>    browser window.
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>5.  The browser must allow a user to interact with the external
>application
>    which is displaying the external.
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I believe mosaic-0.9 (released in March 1993) did all 5 of those 
things.  It used "helper" applications
to display images, movies, etc. The user could interact with some 
helpers such as "mpeg_play".

Glenn

Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:32:11 UTC