Construction, manipulation, and comparison of a multidimensional semantic space , patent No. 7,475,008, invented by Delos C. Jensen of Orem, and Stephen R. Carter of Spanish Fork, assigned to Novell, Inc. of Provo.
Communication interface for providing accounting support for print services , patent No. 7,475,031, invented by F. Devon Taylor of Pleasant Grove, Bart Dahneke of Provo, Dale J. Bethers of Pleasant Grove, and Brad P. Christensen of Alpine, assigned to Novell, Inc. of Provo.
HDTV company Vizio is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to lower patent fees for digital TVs, claiming they are excessive, unregulated and costing consumers more than $1 billion and counting.
“This is the great untold story of the transition to digital television,” said Amos Snead, spokesman for the Coalition to Terminate Financial Abuses of the Television Transmission, or CUT FATT, which Vizio is backing. “Since 2007, American consumers have been paying more than 20 to 30 times what consumers in Europe and Japan pay in royalties for basically the same technologies.
Both patents are entitled, "Computer System Security Method and Apparatus for Creating and Using Program Authorization Information Data Structures," and relate specifically to the technology and manner of use employed by the technology for security software.
Comments
Baby In The Bath Water
2009-01-07 17:28:40
It's what Novell do with these patents that matters.
- If they attack people with them, then "bad Novell! Bad!"
- else If they use them for defensive purposes only, then there's nothing wrong with that.
- else if they give them to OIN or in some other way use them to protect F/LOSS, "good Novell! Good!"
Note: this comment was posted from Novell's headquarters.
AlexH
2009-01-07 19:14:44