Kramer vs O’Rourke, Yahoo! vs Facebook. Open Source? Patents? Technology? Nope, just money.

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Here’s the letter sent by Yahoo! to Facebook and the list of the US Patents Yahoo!’s claiming that Facebook is violating.

  • Pat.no. 6209003: Garbage collection in an object cache
  • Pat.no. 6279001: Web service
  • Pat.no. 6314463: Method and system for measuring queue length and delay
  • Pat.no. 6317786: Web service
  • Pat.no. 6912534: Web service
  • Pat.no. 6976093: Web server content replication
  • Pat.no. 6993590: Method of creating data streams for user-specific usage data gathering systems
  • Pat.no. 7035943: Web server content replication
  • Pat.no. 7143193: Content collection
  • Pat.no. 7243136: Approach for managing and providing content to users
  • Pat.no. 7356589: Content collection
  • Pat.no. 7581006: Web service
  • Pat.no. 7957142: Cold row encapsulation for server farm cooling system
  • Pat.no. 7430118: Cold row encapsulation for server farm cooling system
  • Pat.no. 7672128: Cold row encapsulation for server farm cooling system
  • Pat.no. 8108347: Web server content replication

The Facebook SEC filing is available here.