On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > >Does anyone know of any existing NTFS patent numbers? > >I know of patent numbers for FAT and CIFS. I've never found an NTFS > >patent though. And i've looked for years. > could it be that you can only find ntfs-features patents ? > http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm > eg. "an/microsoft and ntfs" > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2Fmicrosoft+and+ntfs&d=ptxt Some of those patents appear that they would apply to ext3 and reiserfs also :-/ With that search, looks like FAT is equally troubled with patents: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=%28AN%2Fmicrosoft+AND+ntfs%29&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=an%2Fmicrosoft+and+fat Which patent(s) do you believe applies to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html ? -Dan