Fwd: eSoft Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against FiveCompanies

[Anthony Rodgers <cunningpike () gmail com>]

Looks like someone has patented the Internet......

If you boil the abstract down, you get:

A managed services platform. An applications management server is  
provided for managing relationships with others over a wide area  
network such as the Internet. The applications management server  
interfaces with a master database server and the servers of one or  
more other entities, to facilitate selection and deselection of  
applications, services, and capabilities that may be available for  
use by the information technology network of a company.

--
Anthony Rodgers
cunningpike () gmail com

"Genuinely objective journalism not only gets the facts right, it  
gets the meaning of events right. It is compelling not only today,  
but stands the test of time. It is validated not only by 'reliable  
sources', but by the unfolding of history. It is journalism that ten,  
twenty, fifty years after the fact still holds up a true and  
intelligent mirror to events." - T.D. Allman.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
> Date: April 3, 2006 11:27:53 AM PDT (CA)
> To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
> Subject: RE: [funsec] eSoft Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits  
> Against FiveCompanies
>
> Here's the patent in question:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/efhn7
>
> System and method for managing application service providers
>
> Abstract
>
> A managed services platform. An applications management server is  
> provided
> for managing relationships with application service providers and  
> others
> over a wide area network such as the Internet. The applications  
> management
> server interfaces with a master database server and the servers of  
> one or
> more application service providers, or other entities, to facilitate
> selection and deselection of applications, services, and  
> capabilities that
> may be available for use by the information technology network of a  
> company.
>
>
> Filed:  January 19, 2001
>
> Richard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec- 
> bounces () linuxbox org] On
> Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:14 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] eSoft Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against
> FiveCompanies
>
> Via eSoft.
>
> [snip]
>
> eSoft, Inc., a leading vendor of integrated Internet security and  
> content
> management solutions, announced today that it has filed patent  
> infringement
> lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of  
> Colorado
> against Astaro Corporation, Barracuda Networks, Blue Coat, Fortinet  
> and
> SonicWall for the infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,961,773  
> relating to
> software management technology.
>
> Titled "System and Method for Managing Application Service  
> Providers," the
> patent is directed to software management systems and, more  
> particularly, to
> systems and methods for selecting, ordering, installing, managing,  
> updating,
> and if necessary, uninstalling software applications provided to an  
> entity
> by one or more application service providers or other sources.  
> eSoft was
> awarded the patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on  
> November 1,
> 2005.
>
> eSoft is seeking to stop the companies from marketing, selling,  
> using or
> otherwise infringing the patent and also seeks damages relating to  
> their
> unauthorized use of eSoft's patented technology.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.esoft.com/company/press_detail1.cfm?ID=102
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
> fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http:// 
> fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.

_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.