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McAfee Granted Firewall Patent

Posted by timothy on from the usual-absurdity dept.

BadUspto writes "BetaNews reports that 'The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted software maker McAfee a patent for tracking network events on a computer using a firewall. The patent filing involves tracing the location of an incoming connection and displaying a map showing where the remote system geographically resides.' Doomsday for VisualRoute and others?"

2 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I only have one question

    Can I get a patent from the USPTO that is a "method for granting patents in the US" and sue the fuck out of them?

  2. Re:A modest proposal by nathanh · · Score: 0, Redundant
    [blatently unpatentable thing] + "on the internets"
    [blatently unpatentable thing] + "automagically"
    [blatently unpatentable thing] + "in a browser"
    And now we have
    [blatently unpatentable thing] + "with a Firewall"

    [blatantly non-patentable thing] + "a spell checker"

    Everybody should install Spellbound for Firefox.