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RE: Legal Notice on RFC3161 Uses and their possible infringement against Glassey/Mcneil Patents(et al).



Hello all!

Here's some more details on the patent:

http://swpat.ffii.org/pikta/txt/ep/0997/808/

Rgrds,
Saku Vainikainen
PKI Specialist

Elisa Corporation
Products / Identity Management
FINLAND



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Kent
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 12:21 AM
> To: ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Legal Notice on RFC3161 Uses and their possible 
> infringement against Glassey/Mcneil Patents(et al).
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Attached is the abstract for Todd's latest patent in this 
> area, which he alluded to in his posting to this list.
> 
> Since RFC 3161 makes no mention of using time stamp info for 
> access control, the likelihood of this RFC infringing seems 
> questionable to me, but that, of course is not a legal opinion.
> 
> If Todd wanted to follow established IETF procedure, as per 
> RFC 2606 he should have sent this message to 
> ietf-ipr@xxxxxxxxx In fact Todd did post such a message for 
> his previous IPR assertions in this general area, but maybe 
> he didn't feel that such posting had sufficient dramatic effect.
> 
> Steve
> -------
> 
> 
> 
> Controlling access to stored information based on 
> geographical location and  date and time
> 
> Abstract
> 
> Access to stored information by a user is controlled by 
> comparing an actual  geographic position and/or an actual 
> date/time with a geographic region  and/or a date/time 
> interval within which access to the stored information  is 
> authorized. The actual geographic position where the stored 
> information  is located, and the actual date/time can be 
> determined, for example, based  on signals received at a 
> receiver supplying reliable position and time  information, 
> such as a GPS receiver. Access to the stored information is  
> authorized if the actual geographic position and/or date/time 
> falls within  the authorized geographic region and/or 
> date/time interval. The position  and date/time information 
> supplied by the receiver may be  cryptographically signed and 
> encrypted.
> 
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