I was wondering if other windowing mechanisms are also covered in the patent like the sequence number in TCP or that piece of glass that goes up and down in my car;-) Now seriously, if the windowing of the TCP sequence numbers is covered by this patent, then this will be even better than the patent of Amazon.com for 1-click credit-card shopping of. All e-commerce transactions would be using this invention!! However if the wrapping around of TCP sequence numbers was implemented before the patent was requested, then there is a good way of challenging the patent in court. After all a year in a computer is a number that increases monotonically pretty much like a sequence number. Pablo Molinero
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I was wondering if other windowing mechanisms are also covered in the patent like the sequence number in TCP or that piece of glass that goes up and down in my car ;-) Now seriously, if the windowing of the TCP sequence numbers is covered by this patent, then this will be even better than the patent of Amazon.com for 1-click credit-card shopping of. All e-commerce transactions would be using this invention!! However if the wrapping around of TCP sequence numbers was implemented before the patent was requested, then there is a good way of challenging the patent in court. After all a year in a computer is a number that increases monotonically pretty much like a sequence number. Pablo Molinero