> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=
> PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR
> ..&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
Interesting. I thought that if you knocked out an independant claim
(such as #1 in the excerpt you quoted), then the dependant claims (such
as #4) are automatically invalidated.
It seems pretty obvious that OSF DCE, among others, are prior art that
invalidate #1; it had several API's that were "transparently remote."
/r$
