> FWIW, I know of prior art that most certainly nullifies the patent upon
> which their technology is based... SRI was working on this stuff in the
> early 90's.

Nice to think so BUT patents are arcane and devious things. If you read the
site you'll see that HP got a patent which bypassed his (people say) because
he was not allowed to use the name that he originally filed under. HP
effectively have described what he is doing and filed their own way of
describing it. Nice people HP* (but that's the way commercial life goes).



        Russell McMahon

* I used to be an HP aficionado way back when but have become greatly
disenchanted with them in recent decades. Times change and HP surely have.
They seem to be bucking for a position as the moral equivalent of Microsoft
within their own niche(s).

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