AJAX Patent - (FEB 22, 2006)

[Ryan]

This is a bit outdated but I was trying to understand it and didn't see any posts on the forums about it...

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180206472&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News


A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. The patent holder, Balthaser Online Inc., says it could license nearly any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks.

Is this evn possible? I read through most of the article and some of the patent to try and make sense of it... seems a bit stupid...

[G]

Maybe its a special API or something?? can't see it being possible otherwise.

[disobey design]

i tried making sense of it too, but some of it just seems so stupid i have a feeling it was only accepted because the patent office was confused as well.