[Discussioni] MS brevetta la (de)serializzazione XML!

[Emanuele Olivetti]

Attenzione che l'articolo di zdnet linka il brevetto sbagliato (dal db
dell'uspto). Il link giusto e' il seguente:

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=6898604.WKU.&OS=PN/6898604&RS=PN/6898604

che si riferisce al brevetto n.6898604, numero riportato sull'articolo
in questione. Se avete problemi con il link troppo lungo, basta inserire il
questo numero qui:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm

Questi sono i nomi dei cosidetti "inventori" e l'abstract della loro "invenzione":

"Inventors: 	 Ballinger; Keith W. (North Bend, WA); Christensen; Erik B. (Seattle, WA); Pharies; Stefan H. (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: 	Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Appl. No.: 	894829
Filed: 	June 29, 2001

Abstract

An object instance is serialized to a serial format, such as an
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document, based on a mapping between
an arbitrary annotated source code file and a schema. The arbitrary
annotated source code contains at least one programming type that
describes a shape of an object instance and the schema describes a
format of a document having a serial format. The mapping defines a
correspondence between the shape of the object instance and the format
of the document having the serial format. Subsequently, an object
instance is converted to the serial format by converting public
properties, public fields and method parameters of the object instance
to a document having the serial format based on the mapping. Once the
mapping is defined, an XML document can also be converted to an object
instance based on the mapping."

Sto leggendo con attenzione il documento del brevetto e per quanto
vedo finora ho solo un commento: vergogna!

Emanuele

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:13:04PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39200357,00.htm>
> 
> ...
> The patent, which was granted by the US patent office on Tuesday, is for
> XML serialisation and deserialisation -- the conversion of a programming
> object into an XML file and vice versa.
> ...
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