Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites

An anonymous reader writes "InfoSpinner/epicRealm holds two patents that basically describe every dynamic Web site in existence and is now using them to sue companies like eHarmony. This patent seems to describe a standard web/application server setup. This one describes 'dynamically generating a Web page in response to the request, the Web page including data dynamically retrieved from one or more data sources.' If enforced, these patents could shut down almost every dynamic site on the Internet, including the USPTO."

Comments

RTFP (Read The Fine Patent)

[jevvim]

This isn't a patent on dynamic page generation, but about a dynamic server farm where a primary "web server" distributes dynamic page generate requests to one or more "page servers", and where each page server can maintain a cached version of the output of the dynamic page request.

As such, I'm not as concerned about "woe unto all dynamic web sites," but if I managed one that offloads and caches page generation work (i.e., Slashdot, LiveJournal, and probably a lot more) I'd probably be calling my lawyer this morning.

Web Company?

[mystik]

For a company that makes a web product, they have a pretty scarce web presence:

www.epicrealm.com == 'under construction'

www.infospinner.com == non existant

the only thing Googling for either name turns up press releases ...