Letters from America

Google has a fabulous patent searching tool.

Looking back a year and a half - I see I had 26 patents referencing my two on XML and EDI methods.

That total had bumped up 4 in 5 months. I voiced then that perhaps the new ruling on obvious inventions would slow the torrent of nonsense down. Can the US PTO kick this drug that pumps those $ dollars directly into their veins? Well from the 15 patents awarded in 2007, we are down to just 2 in 2008, so maybe there is a trend here?

Courtesy of Google, now I can quickly see which patents reference mine ( 5909570, 6418400), and there are now this list of 39 in total - see below.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=HEQZAAAAEBAJ&dq=6418400

http://www.google.com/patents?id=HEQZAAAAEBAJ&dq=5909570

Enjoy!

Referenced by
Patent Number
Title
Issue date
6061700
Apparatus and method for formatting a web page
May 9, 2000
6216131
Methods for mapping data fields from one data set to another in a data processing environment
Apr 10, 2001
6295561
System for translating native data structures and specific message structures by using template represented data structures on communication media and host machines
Sep 25, 2001
6418400
Representation and processing of EDI mapping templates
Jul 9, 2002
6457003
Methods, systems and computer program products for logical access of data sources utilizing standard relational database management systems
Sep 24, 2002
6601071
Method and system for business to business data interchange using XML
Jul 29, 2003
6701322
Interactive customer-business interview system and process for managing interview flow
Mar 2, 2004
6701345
Providing a notification when a plurality of users are altering similar data in a health care solution environment
Mar 2, 2004
6748594
Object mechanism and method for retrieving attribute values in a object oriented framework
Jun 8, 2004
6757739
Method and apparatus for automatically converting the format of an electronic message
Jun 29, 2004
6842881
Rule based system and method for automatically generating photomask orders in a specified order format
Jan 11, 2005
6871187
Translator for use in an automated order entry system
Mar 22, 2005
6915312
Data processing environment with methods providing contemporaneous synchronization of two or more clients
Jul 5, 2005
6938052
Access to server resources from heterogeneous platforms
Aug 30, 2005
6996450
Automated manufacturing system and method for processing photomasks
Feb 7, 2006
7114123
User controllable data grouping in structural document translation
Sep 26, 2006
7120663
Method and apparatus for updating XML data
Oct 10, 2006
7155455
Method and system for business information networks
Dec 26, 2006
7213061
Internet control system and method
May 1, 2007
7213227
Rapid application integration using an integrated development environment
May 1, 2007
7224366
Method and system for control system software
May 29, 2007
7225425
Rapid application integration
May 29, 2007
7236991
Changing the data structure which an application program in a computer system uses to access database systems
Jun 26, 2007
7237225
Rapid application integration using reusable patterns
Jun 26, 2007
7257818
Rapid application integration using functional atoms
Aug 14, 2007
7275038
Web enabled business to business operating system for rental car services
Sep 25, 2007
7281211
Automated method, system, and software for transforming data between extensible markup language format and electronic data interchange format
Oct 9, 2007
7363577
Techniques for serializing events
Apr 22, 2008
7403901
Error and load summary reporting in a health care solution environment
Jul 22, 2008

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Referenced by
Patent Number
Title
Issue date
6601071
Method and system for business to business data interchange using XML
Jul 29, 2003
6732153
Unified message parser apparatus and system for real-time event correlation
May 4, 2004
6766368
System and method for providing an internet-based correlation service
Jul 20, 2004
6907564
Representing IMS messages as XML documents
Jun 14, 2005
6959340
Platform independent business to business messenger in an enterprise computer system
Oct 25, 2005
7043687
Document/message management
May 9, 2006
7143190
Method and system for remotely facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems
Nov 28, 2006
7216101
Process for creating a trading partner profile
May 8, 2007
7225411
Efficient transformation of information between a source schema and a target schema
May 29, 2007
7233956
Method and apparatus for data migration between databases
Jun 19, 2007
7275038
Web enabled business to business operating system for rental car services
Sep 25, 2007
7281211
Automated method, system, and software for transforming data between extensible markup language format and electronic data interchange format
Oct 9, 2007
7308646
Integrating diverse data sources using a mark-up language
Dec 11, 2007