i’m not a lawyer and i don’t even play one on tv, which is why it’s nice that the
jabber.org folks
have posted a clear,
preliminary technical analysis
which inidcates that jabber technologies do not infringe on the
aol patent
:
“A technology must meet each and every limitation of the independent claims defined in a patent in order to be construed as infringing on the patent. Therefore even this brief analysis shows that U.S. Patent 6,499,344 does not in any way threaten existing or future Jabber technologies. (In fact, the patent seems to describe the original ICQ system, which is fundamentally different from Jabber as well as most other modern IM and presence systems.)”
relatedly, it was recently the
29th anniversary of instant messaging
, with the introduction of an application known as
TERM-talk
.