sarettah
10-24-2003, 11:57 AM
This is strictly my opinion, and ONLY my opinion......
But it has occurred to me many times as I have read the actual Acacia patents and have read how they are being interpreted that if you want to find prior art, don't necessarilly limit it to computers, networks, etc....
From what I get from reading all the stuff is that Acacia has tried to re-patent television transmission to a certain extent...
Television is definitely a "streaming media".... That it goes across the airwaves instead of the wire does not really matter...
Inaddition, cable television (across the wire) has been around since the late 60's, early 70's....
If I remember right, satellite transmission, from the mid-late 60's has always used a compression technology of some sorts and I know for a fact that the U.S. Navy used compression technologies on transmission of sound across wires since at least the mid-late 60's if not sooner (Patent holders would probably be WECO, look for SOSUS related stuff)....
anyway, just a thought........
But it has occurred to me many times as I have read the actual Acacia patents and have read how they are being interpreted that if you want to find prior art, don't necessarilly limit it to computers, networks, etc....
From what I get from reading all the stuff is that Acacia has tried to re-patent television transmission to a certain extent...
Television is definitely a "streaming media".... That it goes across the airwaves instead of the wire does not really matter...
Inaddition, cable television (across the wire) has been around since the late 60's, early 70's....
If I remember right, satellite transmission, from the mid-late 60's has always used a compression technology of some sorts and I know for a fact that the U.S. Navy used compression technologies on transmission of sound across wires since at least the mid-late 60's if not sooner (Patent holders would probably be WECO, look for SOSUS related stuff)....
anyway, just a thought........