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Patent Office bad decision on cell-phone location services.
This was on Dave Farber's list. If the press release is to be believed, it's a patent on using a wireless handset to deliver information that's dependent on where you are, such as telling you the nearest MacDonald's. - handset-based services granted now, network-based pending. I'm not sure how broad their patent claims are, as opposed to their marketing PR (:-), but it sounds like it's way over-broad, steps on lots of things that should be obvious enough to anyone skilled in the trade, and sounds like Yet Another Stupid Patent Office Trick. ..."U.S. patent office has conditionally allowed Cell-Loc to claim the delivery of handset-based wireless location content and services over the Internet as its property, regardless of technological method employed." http://www.cell-loc.com/mdnews/NR000516.html Unfortunately, after downloading the half megabyte of animated Web Designer Candy that serves as their main web page, it wasn't possible to get to any real information... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
Re: Patent Office bad decision on cell-phone location services.
I look at this patent as a good thing. It means that the "Put a GPS in your cell-phone" just became more expensive. It means that the WAP-consortium can't sell your privacy without paying royalties to cel-loc. So cheap phones won't have the feature. Cool. Adam On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:01:13AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: | | This was on Dave Farber's list. | If the press release is to be believed, it's a patent on | using a wireless handset to deliver information that's | dependent on where you are, such as telling you the nearest MacDonald's. | - handset-based services granted now, network-based pending. | I'm not sure how broad their patent claims are, | as opposed to their marketing PR (:-), but it sounds like it's | way over-broad, steps on lots of things that should be obvious enough | to anyone skilled in the trade, and sounds like Yet Another | Stupid Patent Office Trick. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
Fwd: Gnutella
By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 18, 2000; Page A01 Two months ago, Justin Frankel created an ingenious little software tool that allows its users to bypass the dominant Internet companies and communicate directly among themselves. His bosses at America Online Inc., the biggest computing network of them all, were so impressed they tried to snuff it out of existence. Within 24 hours, AOL officials had removed the tool, called Gnutella, from the Web site of its Nullsoft development house. It was, they declared, an "unauthorized freelance project." But they were too late. About 10,000 people had already downloaded the program onto their own machines, creating bustling networks for the free exchange of everything from digital music files and pictures to political propaganda beyond the control of AOL, its merger partner Time Warner Inc. or anyone else. Both the beauty and danger of Gnutella are that it is a more sophisticated version of Napster, the infamous and popular program that college students have been using to swap music files over the Web. Napster's developers have recently been hit with a flurry of copyright-infringement lawsuits. But unlike users of Napster, Gnutella aficionados can trade files without going through a storage center, making it impossible to shut down the system without unplugging every computer on the network and difficult to control by laws because there's no central authority. Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape Communications and a former chief technology officer for AOL, compares Gnutella to a benevolent virus, a "revolutionary" program that spreads the power of publishing from an elite set of corporations to anyone who has a computer. "It changes the Internet in a way that it hasn't changed since the browser," Andreessen said. At a time when the general assumption is that the World Wide Web's destiny will be guided by international conglomerates such as AOL, Amazon.com Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp., Gnutella is the unexpected variable. Its very existence is a statement about the wild nature of the Web and how difficult it will be for anyone to tame it. It is also a dramatic display of how easily the Internet can be transformed or at least shaken by smart computer programmers who are barely old enough to drink or drive. Frankel, 21, and his good friend and software co-creator, Tom Pepper, another twentysomething Nullsoft employee, have become virtual cult heroes. Their work is being refined daily by hundreds of young volunteer programmers around the world who hope to extend Gnutella's reach, making it a free search engine for the masses. The decentralization of power that Gnutella represents has revived the romantic dream of many a cyberspace pioneer--that of a truly free realm where no information gatekeeper exists and where all property is commonly owned. But those who hope to profit handsomely from the Internet's transformation into a global marketplace--record companies, book publishers, movie makers and practically everyone else with a stake in selling information--regard Gnutella as a device for thievery. It was, after all, Gerald Levin, chief executive of Time Warner Inc., which owns the Warner Music label, who called on his AOL counterpart, Steve Case, to quash the Gnutella project. Carey Heckman, a professor of law and technology at Stanford University, said the software could undermine the foundation of many multibillion-dollar corporations. "It's about how information flows and who controls that system," Heckman said. "The idea of a handful of institutions filtering information may be decaying." Origin of a New Species The name Gnutella comes from a combination of Gnu, the popular suite of free Unix software, and Nutella, the chocolatey hazelnut spread that Frankel is said to favor. It is the most advanced of a new generation of what are known as "distributed network" programs with names like Freenet and iMesh. Freenet, also a relative of Napster, is the brainchild of Ian Clarke, a 23-year-old in London. The program, which is still in the early stages of development, has drawn attention because it deliberately makes it all but impossible to identify the source of a file. Thus it could act as a megaphone for political dissidents fearful of retribution, as well as potentially a gathering place for terrorists, pornographers and other malevolent users. "People should be free to distribute information without restrictions of any form," Clarke said in an e-mail. Programs such as Freenet and Gnutella conform to the original vision of the Internet's architects, who imagined it to be a completely decentralized system. But then corporations came along and set up central information storehouses called "servers." Being able to control storage and distribution of information, of course, gives online companies the ability to set prices, track the habits of users and block material they find objectionable. Any computer running
Re: After Fermat
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: The Clay Mathematics Institude recently picked the seven such problems it considers most important, and put them on its web page, together with both a layman's blurb, and a rigorous statement of the problem in .pdf format, as the greatest unresolved problems of the 20th century. P versus NP For what it's worth, the Clay Math Institute (which seems to be new?) is sponsoring a summer school in computational complexity theory jointly with the Park City Math Institute. You can see the details, including abstracts of the lectures to be offered at http://www.admin.ias.edu/ma/SummerSession2000.htm I am attending the undergraduate program thanks to CMI's support... I wonder if they are sponsoring other institutes or work connected to the other major open problems. Thanks, -David
Re: CDR: Re: After Fermat
Jim Choate wrotes: I've looked around, the only thing I can find is a paper by Y.K. Huen. However, it requires a change in some definitions. The abstract I remember reading proved GC on a set of finite number fields of increasing size, and then inferred it for the integers at the end. The "proof" doesn't seem to have become famous, and yet, I don't recall it being publicly shot down either. Then some other group announced a big prize for proving GC recently, so I really have no clue as to what is going on. The distribution of prime numbers is completely determined once one classifies the zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function, so perhaps the Clay Math folks considered the inclusion of two problems on the structure of prime numbers redundant, and the Riemann Hypothesis to be the most important one. The Riemann Hypothesis, and NP=P, are of course the only problems in the seven with earthshaking implications for the face of Crypto As We Know It. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
Re: CDR: Re: CDR: Re: After Fermat
Jim Choate wrote: The abstract I remember reading proved GC on a set of finite number fields of increasing size, and then inferred it for the integers at the end. That wouldn't be sufficiently robust. Simply because the first n primes do it is not sufficient to prove that all primes will do it. I believe the idea was that given an integer, there was a number field of sufficient size in the family such that the decomposition w.r.t. the number field was the same as that in Z. Of course, it's hard to tell from reading an abstract whether something is going to sink or swim. This apparently sank, although as I remember it provoked lots of discussion in sci.math and here on the list at the time. I've been working on GC for several years now and I haven't come across anything in this regards. There is a page of recent progress on GC (don't know how often it's updated), The Generalized Riemann Hypothesis implies a weaker version of Goldbach's conjecture involving three primes instead of two. That seems to be the strongest thing they've proved so far. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
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