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Given that a "computer" used to mean a person who did calculations, I think
there is prior art in the way the Egyptians organised the payment of workers
7000 years ago.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com]
> Sent: 21 October 2005 22:31
> To: 'ian.graham@utoronto.ca'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Small company makes big claims on XML patents
>
> Heck, we might as well enjoy this. A fellow posted the
> first essential claim on cNet. Here it is. The game
> here is to play patent reviewer and given prior art
> you approve, review these claims.
>
> We should carry this over to XML 2005 as such claims
> actually do influence town hall discussions such as
> <shamelessPlug>XML Document formats</shamelessPlug>.
>
> I suspect that gencode systems (circa 1967-69) alone can
> beat most of these but be careful because these guys
> claimed more than XML actually does.
>
> The claims are:
>
> 1. A method of organizing and storing a set of information in
> neutral form
> in a computer based environment comprising the steps of:
>
> a) organizing the set of information into instance data sets;
>
> b) defining a time basis for the collection of instance data sets;
>
> c) organizing each instance data set into an instance cluster
> comprised of
> data instance nodes;
>
> d) assigning to each data instance node in an instance cluster a
> distinguishing structural tag comprising the following three
> components:
>
> a data reference;
>
> a data type;
>
> a data organization;
>
> e) defining the components of the structural tag for each
> data value in each
> instance cluster;
>
> f) assigning properties of the data value to each structural tag;
>
> g) storing the names of all of the structural tag elements
> together with
> their respective definitions and properties in a suitable format;
>
> h) combining each data value and its respective structural
> tag to form a
> neutral form expression of the data; and
>
> i) storing the resultant neutral form expression of the data value.
>
> Let the game begin.
>
> len
>
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