On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:56 -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
>>
>> > I'm pretty sure
there's prior art.
>
>> The oldest date seems to be 1994. I'd bet money
somebody on this list
>> can come up with some prior art. :-)
>
>Well, I haven't done a heck of a lot of research, but from reading the
>abstract, I suspect CMU's SUP protocol would invalidate the patent. We
>were using it while I was there as an undergrad.
>
>Steven Shafer and Mary Thompson, The SUP Software Upgrade Protocol
>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.ps
>8 September 1989
The patent mentions SUP.
Tim
I believe I read somewhere yesterday that the patent was dated 1990...
-sb
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