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I've dug down as far as I could on www.uspto.gov for anything remotely close to what is going on with Verizon and all searches end with only two possibilities in regards to what is going on. So unless the patent was issued to someone else and Verizon bought it, these are the only two possible patents this case could be based on... US 7,142,...

...mzas, D.L. Duttweiler, "Method and Apparatus for Carry-over Control in Arithmetic Entropy Coding". US 5,025,258, June 18, 1991, D.L. Duttweiler, "Adaptive Probability Estimator for Entropy Encoding/Decoding". The important one is the second one. The link for it is: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=4905297.WKU.&OS=PN/4905297&RS=PN/4905297 IBM holds the patent for arithmetic encoding. I think. Here is what I don't understand. The patent was applied for...

Hi all, <p>i have readed all the realy sad stuff about software patents in europe and what allread exists. There is one side related to speex and i dont know if this is allready discussed here. Take a look at: http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/voip/index.en.html Is speex realy petant free or does patent free only means that is is not patent by the speex authors? Who have checked that

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:44, Josh Coalson wrote: > Miroslav did some experiments with searching for optimum blocksize. > from what I remember it made at best a couple percent difference. > there was a thread about it here a while back. > Did his changes make it in? I can think of a coupla ways to approach this and I'd like to hear about what he tried. A couple of % doesnt seem

Hi, sorry if this is considered off-topic, however I suspect that this list is full of people developing their own web apps who would appreciate this kind of information, so: I was wondering whether anybody would be willing to share his/her experience with trademarking a web app''s name(/logo) in the US. What are the alternatives, and what is the best/most affordable way to do it?

...tents are only used to prevent other people > to be creative. > > Nonetheless, what the current patent state of speex? First, we (Xiph.org, me) obviously did not patent Speex. Also, during development, we were careful not to use techniques known to be patented and we searched through the uspto database to see if anything we were doing was covered. The only thing we haven't done yet for Speex is an "official" (done by a lawyer) patent search. If anyone is interested in funding such effort, that would be appreciated. That being said, we cannot offer any absolute warranty reg...

--- Wayde Milas <wmilas@rarcoa.com> wrote: > The last one is truely frightening. AT&T hold the patent. The link > for > it is at: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=5025258.WKU.&OS=PN/5025258&RS=PN/5025258 > Trying to read and grok it is mind numbing. the synopsis mentions its > for arithmitic encoding, but the best I...

Sprint Nextel is sueing vonage, voiceglo and theglobe.com for infringing on VoIP patents. Sprint Nextel claims to have about 100 patents on VoIP technologies. Does anyone know which ones this article is talking about, and if so does asterisk have any of those features? The reason I am asking is that the article is vague, Vonage uses a fairly standard codec set, I dont know about the others.

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Here in the uk, to get a patent on anything, you have to prove that the patent is not obvious and that there is no prior art. If there is prior art, then a patent cannot be given, this is why people patenting stuff have to keep it a secret until they actually have the patent, otherwise it is considered to have been released into the public domain. Once something is in the public domain, nobody

...efend their trademark to the anal power, and projects like CentOS are stuck with dealing with that as a result. Red Hat is the _only_ major commercial Linux entity that allowed redistribution of its trademark on a scale large enough that it could have been declared "public domain" by the USPTO. Red Hat lives with that now. *NO* other commercial vendor will attempt it in the future either. [ The only exception seems to be SuSE(R), which Novell seems to be turning into a "Fedora-like" trademark. ] > - I'm just reading what it says, and 'no additional restrictions...

Does anyone have any pointers on how other people have implemented tcp window adjustment to do bandwidth shaping? Granted the basic idea is to set the window size to be RTT * bandwidth, but a quick squiz at google turns up mostly papers on how to implement this at the sender end with a view to some new magic TCP implementation. I''m really interested in notes on how to implement at