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timo
01-27-2004, 11:34 AM
This is nuts! These people will patent absolutely anything:

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/002848.html

Nomadix managed to get a patent on redirection technology, yet redirection technology has been around since the Internet was born!

timo
01-27-2004, 11:48 AM
The patent document:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,636,894.WKU.&OS=PN/6,636,894&RS=PN/6,636,894

Looks like it's geared toward the feature that allows connectivity regardless of the customer's IP stack setup.