Re: Patents on faceted navigation: what's the impact?

From: Andrew Nagy <andrew.nagy_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:33:52 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Danielle Plumer wrote:
> "Prior art" is the way to attack patents such as these, as Nancy states.
>
> The Open Source Development Laboratories has an "Open Source as Prior Art" site at http://osapa.org/. The goal is to protect innovation by reviewing, and challenging as necessary, "poor quality" patents that threaten the development of new software tools.
>
I have been surfing around the Wayback Machine on archive.org to find
instances of Faceted searching, but have not found much.  It's hard to
find a site on the wayback machine that has more than the front page.  I
have looked at dell.com, ebay.com, cnet.com and since I cannot use the
searching mechanism it's hard to find instances of faceted search
results, but even so I haven't found good instances of faceted browsing
with results on the same screen.  Before 2001 that is.

Andrew
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 13:32:40 EDT