TenXsys has been putting tracking collars on large animals and birds of prey.
(http://www.tenxsys.com/animal_telemetry.htm)
It's not quite a computer in a collar, but with this sort of prior work, I'm a bit surprised the Patent office would give it a patent. If MS put an xbox in a collar, will they give that a patent?
I don't see where this passes the "novel" concept, but then stranger things have been patented...
Doug Austin here. Tom's me neighbor. Doubt he is a slashdot reader, but will point him here. This isn't the first time someone has tracked down the original story and the web site and pointed the two out to me. Will leave the figuring out as to who wrote what first up to Tom.
Doug
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TenXsys has been putting tracking collars on large animals and birds of prey.
(http://www.tenxsys.com/animal_telemetry.htm)
It's not quite a computer in a collar, but with this sort of prior work, I'm a bit surprised the Patent office would give it a patent. If MS put an xbox in a collar, will they give that a patent?
I don't see where this passes the "novel" concept, but then stranger things have been patented...
Doug Austin here. Tom's me neighbor. Doubt he is a slashdot reader, but will point him here. This isn't the first time someone has tracked down the original story and the web site and pointed the two out to me. Will leave the figuring out as to who wrote what first up to Tom. Doug