On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Althaf K Backer <[email protected]> wrote: > Syam Kumar R. wrote: >> >> See Microsoft's patent for "Rights elevator >> <http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,617,530.PN.&OS=PN/7,617,530&RS=PN/7,617,530>" >> : >> >> "Systems and/or methods are described that enable a user to elevate his or >> her rights. In one embodiment, these systems and/or methods present a user >> interface identifying an account having a right to permit a task in response >> to the task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having >> that right." > > Indeed our this time IRC meet is on software patents,well good > coincidence.
Then follow Bilski Case too. -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
