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 > -- Stan Bubrouski <stan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
