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[Dan Hollis]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> >Does anyone know of any existing NTFS patent numbers?
> >I know of patent numbers for FAT and CIFS. I've never found an NTFS 
> >patent though. And i've looked for years.
> could it be that you can only find ntfs-features patents ?
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm
> eg.    "an/microsoft and ntfs"
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2Fmicrosoft+and+ntfs&d=ptxt

Some of those patents appear that they would apply to ext3 and reiserfs also :-/

With that search, looks like FAT is equally troubled with patents:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=%28AN%2Fmicrosoft+AND+ntfs%29&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=an%2Fmicrosoft+and+fat

Which patent(s) do you believe applies to 
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html ?

-Dan