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What Microsoft?s AOL/Netscape patent purchases mean
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 11, 2012, 10:07am PDT
Summary: What did Microsoft really buy from AOL and what will that mean for the Web and its competition? The experts give their two cents on what the deal will mean.
We now know a little more about the Netscape patents that Microsoft bought from AOL. It?s believed that the patents that Microsoft either bought outright or acquired a license for over a billion bucks include:
Patent No. 5657390, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
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Patent No. 7478142. Packing Web-browser based applications
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Patent No 5774670 and Patent No. 5826242, Cookies
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Read more about that win at: http://www.zdnet.com...hases-mean/2211
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 11, 2012, 10:07am PDT
Summary: What did Microsoft really buy from AOL and what will that mean for the Web and its competition? The experts give their two cents on what the deal will mean.
We now know a little more about the Netscape patents that Microsoft bought from AOL. It?s believed that the patents that Microsoft either bought outright or acquired a license for over a billion bucks include:
Patent No. 5657390, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
...
Patent No. 7478142. Packing Web-browser based applications
...
Patent No 5774670 and Patent No. 5826242, Cookies
...
Read more about that win at: http://www.zdnet.com...hases-mean/2211
