Is this applying to an application based tool only or does it also apply to web based tools? We have a product that we have licensed out for 4 years or so that does exactly this via the web( approx 5000 sites are using it now ). I am sure others do as well.
Just not sure what the scope of this lame patent is. John- On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 11:12 AM, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Joe Schaefer writes: >> A causal reading seems to suggest that most mod_perl-based >> templating systems do exactly what this patent will cover: >> i.e. set up a non-HTML based website where templates >> dynamically convert non-HTML files into HTML. > > IANAL (and IVAGINAL too, but that's for a different time :-) but as > far as I can see, the patent applies to applications that interact > with the user to build the website. In other words, mod_perl's > character-based DIY stuff wouldn't count. > > <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- > Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search- > bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML> > > Abstract---------------------------- > A software tool is provided for use with a computer system for > simplifying > the creation of Web sites. The tool comprises a plurality of pre-stored > templates, comprising HTML formatting code, text, fields and formulas. > The > templates preferably correspond to different types of Web pages and > other > features commonly found on or available to Web sites. Each feature may > have > various options. To create a web site, a Web site creator (the person > using > the tool to create a web site) is prompted by the tool through a series > of > views stored in the tool to select the features and options desired for > the > Web site. Based on these selections, the tool prompts the web site > creator > to supply data to populate fields of the templates determined by the > tool > to correspond to the selected features and options. Based on the > identified > templates and supplied data, the tool generates the customized Web site > without the web site creator writing any HTML or other programming code. > Based on roles-based, multi-level security, certain users of the web > site > may have access to certain information and others may not. > > Nat >
