Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for Hotspots

Posted by timothy on Monday January 26, 2004 @04:42PM from the mmmm-submarine dept.

Glenn Fleishman writes "Over at WiFiNetNews.com, we just broke the story that Nomadix was issued a patent covering hotspot gateway page redirection. Nomadix makes hardware and software for the hotspot industry, and this patent would cover redirection used by community networking portals (like NoCat), sponsored free networks (like NewburyOpen.Net), and fee networks (like Wayport, T-Mobile HotSpot, and Cometa). It's unclear what terms Nomadix wants for a license, but this patent seems to take a standard way of doing business and put it under fee -- although Nomadix may have been the first firm to employ this method for proxy URL redirection."

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Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-26 16:44 · Score: 0, Funny

Slashdot: News for Nerds. Patents that suck.
Civilization will Eat itself by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-26 16:57 · Score: 0, Funny

Soon we will have to pay a licence fee to get up in the morning. Fuck all this shit. Time for a revolution.
What do you expect? by craw · 2004-01-26 17:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Patent this, patent that, stupid patents, obvious patents, blah, blah, blah.

Geez, what do you expect? Do you really think that you are going to find an Einstein in the patent office?

No, wait.