Re: IBM patents tunneling HTTP through another protocal
Telford001@aol.com
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:14:36 EDT
In a message dated 6/5/98 11:43:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sean.mcdermott@fmr.com writes:
> > > hmm..
> > > Wouldnt a prior work be tunneling HTTP through SSL, as
> > > originated by Netscape ?
> > > This is how https works...
> > Protocol tunnels have been used for at least twenty
> > years. Hard to believe IBM's develop is non-obvious
> > to someone skilled in the art or that it constitutes a
> > new combination of old ideas.
> But the patent seems only to apply to:
> "a method of increasing the performance"
> Protocol tunnels for security/routing reasons wouldn't be
> applicable here.
> I guess tunnelling over SSL doesn't apply since there is
> certainly no performance enhancement.
> To prove a prior work you need to find an example of
> tunnelling over a protocol which dynamically compresses??
> Does AppleTalk compress?
> Obviously there are other ways to increase the performance
> other than compress - to use a different protocol than TCP/IP..
> Anyway, is it true to say, if any performance improvements
> are introduced *into* the HTTP standard, this patent doesn't
> apply?
Tunneling IPX over IP being compressed onto a WAN like
sounds hardly different. If I am not mistaken, Cisco brouters,
ACC brouters and <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Telford001/">TTT's own VLAN
Router</A> have such capabilities.
Joachim Martillo