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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:33 PM > To: 'Ken North'; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Amazon Patent Filing on Web Services > Marketplace > > Steve Newcomb made an astute observation many years ago as > the www was first being touted. He said that at some point, > owners of nodes that began to notice that their machines were > using a lot of cycles moving other people's messages from > place to place would charge for the passthrough. I wonder if Steve thought about patenting that idea...I'll have to ask him next time I see him. Joe Joseph Chiusano Booz Allen Hamilton O: 703-902-6923 C: 202-251-0731 Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com > Metered Internet nodes: that will bring the revolution to a > screaming halt. Or the big guys will give up these patents. > > len > > > From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@s...] > > While doing some research, I found two interesting patent > applications that surfaced last week. > > One is Amazon's. It sees a potential profit from acting as a > broker for web services. > > The other is by Google. Its patent application concerns RSS > feeds: searching for them and using content-matching > techniques to insert ads in RSS streams. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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