Archive for January, 2005

A SNIU and Email Privacy

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

I just thought of an interesting application of p2p networks that could be used to create greater email privacy. I decided to quickly publish it here to create prior art for the idea so that no one could legitimately patent it. It’s motivated by the fact that email that is in storage receives […]

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A p2p Substantial Non-Infringing Use (SNIU)

Monday, January 10th, 2005

This is the best example of a SNIU I’ve seen in a while:
The Open Tsunami Alert System (OTAS) is being developed by developer Charles R. Martin and Canadian earth scientist Darren Griffith. The current plan is for OTAS to be a distributed network architecture composed of two classes of nodes:
(1) prediction nodes, which receive data […]

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