Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!qualcom.qualcomm.com!cancun.qualcomm.com!rdippold From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Prior work Message-ID: <1991May15.194658.17376@qualcomm.com> Date: 15 May 91 19:46:58 GMT Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com For those looking for prior work in the Hayes case, this comes from comp.dcom.telecom: Article 6056 of comp.dcom.telecom: Path: qualcom.qualcomm.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: news@psg.com (Randy Bush) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Hayes Wins Damages on its Command Set Patent Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 15:01:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 16 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 360, Message 5 of 11 > The patent upheld is on the method of notifying the DCE equipment that > the next data arriving should be treated as a command to the DCE, as > opposed to data to be transmitted to the far end; that is, switching > to command mode. You mean kinda like one tells an X.25 PAD (i.e. Telenet et al.) to drop to command mode from data mode, "@" Seeing as the above and similar uses have been in use since the '70s, how did our friends from Norcross manage to patent it? Randy Bush / news@psg.com / ..!uunet!m2xenix!news -- Standard disclaimer applies, you legalistic hacks. | Ron Dippold