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Originally posted by RiverRat19602003
Better check with SBC first. If the Acacia move is successful, SBC is probably going to be asking you for a royalty for using Frames.
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SBC's patent is on a navigation system that involves having the nav bar be fixed and when a button onthe navbar is pressed, the nav bar stays present but the content underneath or next to it changes...
the modern day implementation of this patent in their eyes is a web page that uses frames.. where one frame holds the nav bar and the other frame holds the content when a button is pushed.
SBC didn't patent the use of frames, just the idea of locking the navbar on a screen so that the nav bar stays stationary while the rest of the page loads..
This patent probably came out of their customer service software... in anycase, they have a whole licensing price structure.
The easy way around their patent, is to not use framed pages...jus redraw (#include) the nav bar on each page and you'll get around their patent.
Fight The Patent!