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AOL May Strike Gold with Instant Messaging Patent | |
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| Time: 10:00 EST/15:00 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft and AOL have recently embarked on a project to develop secure chat applications for corporate users, the first major effort to cash in on what has been a largely free software tool. Reuters Group is one of the biggest corporate clients, using Microsoft's IM technology. AOL has scores of other technology patents, including one for Internet browsing memory tags, or "cookies," and another for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an application that secures e-commerce transactions. But it has never sought to enforce these. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/19/2002 1:34:02 PM |
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I was using zephyr as part of Project Athena back in 1992. Zephyr was an instant messaging program that worked across the Internet. In 1992 it did more than what I see AIM or MSN doing, although granted since it was deployed mainly at Universities it never handled more than a few thousand users at a time.
But Microsoft knows this. They hired away a couple of the developers at my University back in 1994, and it was always our suspicion that they went on to be part of the MSN Messenger team as they had been working on porting a zephyr like IM solution to NT at the time. |
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