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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Damn... by meatball_mulligan · 2004-01-26 16:44 · Score: 1, Redundant

It's just getting ridiculous. We really need to do something about patent and copyright law in this country.

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Re:Why go to all that trouble? by ryanjensen · 2004-01-26 17:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

This patent was applied for over four years ago, December 8, 1999 to be exact. Does that count for "quite a while ago" or did you have something else in mind?
(Not trying to be flippant -- just wondering how long people have been doing this on their own.)

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