Patent Troll Goes After Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Others

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @02:11PM from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

zaba writes "A company named PersonalWeb Technologies has decided to sue a host of heavy players in the tech industry, including Apple, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo! for patents it holds related to data processing. They have a previous suit against other big names like Amazon, Google and HP. Anyone care to guess where the company is based or where the suits were filed?" The company is also targeting GitHub, but seems to have accidentally sued Rackspace — GitHub's host — instead. Rackspace has responded, saying, "It’s apparent that the people filing the suit don’t understand the technology or the products enough to realize that Rackspace Cloud Servers and GitHub are completely different products from different companies."

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List of their patents by nagasrinivas · 2012-09-18 14:18 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.personalweb.com/Technology.html
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1. Re:List of their patents by TheRealMindChild · 2012-09-18 14:27 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers -UUID
  6,415,280 - Identifying and requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of data - CRC Hash
  6,928,442 - Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers - See WinAmp and Windows Media player
  and so on...
  
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