Re: Unifi Software Patent

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From: Chet Murthy
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 22:21

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kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>Note <NB910812.6@clarinet.com> in clari.nb.telecom says that Unifi
>Communications has gotten patent number 5,036,535 for its "PhoneServer
>software technology".
>"The patent covers both a concept and its implementation in software.
>PhoneServer lets telecommunications managers use Unix or Windows 3.0
>based computers on their own premises to program and control call
>routing in the public network."

>"'The patent covers both the concept of what we have done as well as
>the implementation, and the concept is a big part of the patent,' Bob
>Pokress of the company told Newsbytes."

Gee.  I thought AT&T was only doing that for the past decade...

--chet--

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