[IP] more on USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW (DNS) naming scheme
From: Larry Tesler <tesler@xxxxxxxxx>
Dave,
On that geek.com page, some people who, unlike the author, actually read
the claims point out that they are far narrower than the characterization
below.
What is claimed is:
1. A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a
group comprising the steps of:
assigning each member of said group a URL of the form
"name.subdomain.domain"; and
assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form
"name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;"
wherein the "name" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the
same and unique for each particular one of said members such that an only
difference between said URL and said e-mail address for said member is that
in said URL the "@" symbol of the e-mail address is replaced with a "." and
wherein said "subdomain" portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the
same for all members of said group.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said members of said group comprise
members of a licensed profession.
One comment mentions RFC 1034, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1034.html:
"The usual mail address <local-part>@<mail-domain> is mapped into a domain
name by converting <local-part> into a single label (regardles of dots it
contains), converting <mail-domain> into a domain name using the usual text
format for domain names (dots denote label breaks), and concatenating the
two to form a single domain name. Thus the mailbox HOSTMASTER@xxxxxxxxxxxx
is represented as a domain name by HOSTMASTER.SRI-NIC.ARPA."
Prior art?
Larry
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