17 Jun
2011
17 Jun
'11
2:26 p.m.
On 6/17/2011 11:57 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:41:38AM -0400, Michael
Passer wrote:
Yep. stupid patent. Modem companies had to pay or not use it.
- Diane
Patent is available here, for those interested.
http://bit.ly/kbM0AD
read someplace that the license was $1.
While this might not be worth anything, they did have a court decision
find in their (Hayes) favor.
Keith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Ethan
Dicks<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Diane Bruce<db at db.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:45:51PM -0500, Ethan Dicks wrote:
...
Or did you mean Hayes vs Hayes clones?
-ethan
I believe the reason it didn't work on some modems is that Hayes had a
patent on the use of an escape sequence (+++) with guard time.