Re: Client Honeyopt Patent

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Wouldn't the mailing list here be demonstration of prior art?

Just my two pennies...

Happy Holidays All

S.

On 21-Dec-07, at 2:07 PM, Lance Spitzner wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I just found out the US Patent office has started an interesting  
> online Wiki for submitting prior art for specific patents.  It looks  
> like this is a trial program.  I also just found out they have  
> Microsoft's patent application for client honeypots (called  
> HoneyMonkey).  If you have done any research in this field I highly  
> recommend you go there and submit your prior work.  Right now they  
> have none listed which has me concerned.  In addition, you have only  
> 5 days left to submit a claim.  I went through the application, they  
> have 5 different claims.  To prove prior art you have to select a  
> specific claim and demonstrate prior art for that claim. The filing  
> date is 01 March, 2006 so your prior art has to be before that.  Its  
> most effective to have prior art a year before the filing. Claim #1  
> appears to be the most broad and the one I suggest you consider  
> submitting prior art one.
>
> http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/20070208822/activity
>
> Thanks!
>
> lance
>
> CLAIM #1
> ========
> A system comprising: a browser that is capable of visiting network  
> locations as represented by uniform resource locators (URLs); and a  
> browser-based vulnerability exploit detector that directs the  
> browser to visit a given URL by making an information request to the  
> given URL; the browser-based vulnerability exploit detector adapted  
> to detect if the given URL accomplishes an exploit on the system  
> after the browser makes the information request to the given URL."