An attempt to patent SMB-like protocols

[David Collier-Brown]

  Groklaw discussed this in an article at http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080716164902546
about the expansion of the Peer-to-Patent project with the USPTO.

  The specific discussion is at http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/20080114839/activity
and the patent name is "Version control for application message models",
described as follows

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Filing Date: November 14, 2006
Inventors: Kenneth W. Borgendale
Assignee: IBM
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/206000
Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for version control for application message models that include establishing, on a message sending device, a sender message model, the sender message model specifying a message format for interpreting application messages, the sender message model including one or more sender field specifications, each sender field specification specifying a message field for storing data in an application message, each sender field specification including sender field characteristics; calculating, by the message sending device, a sender version number for the sender message model in dependence upon the sender field characteristics of one or more of the sender field specifications of the sender message model; creating, by the message sending device, an application message according to the sender message model; and transmitting, by the message sending device to a message receiving device, the application message and the sender version number for the
 sender message model.
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If you by any chance know of prior use by IBM and Microsoft that fits this
description, you just might want to bring it to the attention of peertopatent.org (;-))

--dave
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