On Thu, March 22, 2007 5:10 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Gus Wirth wrote:
>> Last night at the March Mingle I saw Phil Karn
>> <http://cache.qualcomm.com/karn/> and we had a discussion about some new
>> wireless repeaters he bought, specifically the Miraki Mini Repeater
>> (available from <http://www.netequality.com/>). One of his comments was
>> its usefulness in disaster scenarios, where you could have these things
>> matched up in a little box with a battery and deployed throughout a
>> building. My observation was that EXIT signs already provide the
>> infrastructure necessary to make this happen. They are nearly ubiquitous
>> in commercial buildings and they already have batteries in them that
>> could provide power for up to several hours. A retrofit kit for existing
>> signs and builtin for new signs could give a building complete wireless
>> coverage both in normal usage and in emergency conditions for a very low
>> cost.
>>
>> I'm registering this idea here so as to establish this as prior art. Any
>> other places I should register my idea?
>>
Just a wild thought, but the FSF encourages people who GPL to register
copyright ownership with them because they have the cash to pursue any
violations. You might drop them a line with your idea to ask if they have
any mecahnism for registering BINFP ("Bin-fup" -- Bright Ideas Not For
Profit) like yours.
If they don't, they should. It certainly could be used to undermine claims
that a patent isn't "immediately obvious."
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