Exactly, Jeff didn't read the actual email (or doesn't understand Patents).
Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randall Mason Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:03 PM To: List for OpenMoko community discussion Subject: Re: need someone to develop this.... Actually, I don't think "shoogle" mentioned the pairing-shaking security idea. I thought that they were only creating non visual user interfaces to things like number of SMSs and battery charge. The main similarity is shaking, which maracas and rainsticks both clearly have prior art on these ideas. Randall On 12/3/07, Jeff Andros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: um, is anyone that's replied on this thread a member of the University of Glasgow team that developed the software(shoogle)? I'm guessing not. it has obviously already been invented, which means that disclosure arguments are rendered moot by prior art. Moreover, trying to patent something that someone else invented is theft of intellectual property... preventing this is one of the reasons the GPL exists. If you want to go forward on this, check with the authors(see below for contact information) they'd probably be delighted to have community help in developing it. Authors(taken from http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~rod/publications/WilMurHug07Interactive.pdf <http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Erod/publications/WilMurHug07Interactive.pdf > ): John Williamson Dept. Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G!2 8QQ, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roderick Murray-Smith Dept. Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G!2 8QQ, UK and Hamilton Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Hughes Dept. Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G!2 8QQ, UK and SAMH Engineering -- Jeff O|||||||O _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Randall Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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