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

From: Kathleen M. Folger <kfolger_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:00:59 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Northern Lights used folders to organize the results of a search at least
as far back as 2000.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304104725/www.northernlight.com/docs/custom_folders.html

-Kathleen

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Shawn Carraway wrote:

> Didn't Visivismo have faceted browsing?  I remember folders or something
> similar.
>
> Shawn
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:34 PM
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Patents on faceted navigation: what's
>> the impact?
>>
>> 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
>>
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Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 13:58:34 EDT