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Microsoft verklagt TomTom wegen Patentverletzung
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An operating system provides a common name space for both long filenames and short filenames. In this common namespace, a long filename and a short filename are provided for each file. Each file has a short filename directory entry and may have at least one long filename directory entry associated with it. The number of long filename directory entries that are associated with a file depends on the number of characters in the long filename of the file. The long filename directory entries are configured to minimize compatibility problems with existing installed program bases.
Hmmm … Irgendwie trifft das wohl auf jedes Filesystem zu. Wobei long doch nach deutlich mehr klingt als FAT, FAT32 und NTFS bieten können.
A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system. The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, including both vehicle-related applications (e.g., vehicle security application, vehicle diagnostics application, communications application, etc.) and non-vehicle-related applications (e.g., entertainment application, word processing, etc.). The applications may be supplied by the vehicle manufacturer and/or by the vehicle user.
Diese trivialen und allgemein gültigen Patente werden dann als geistiges Eigentum verkauft und an weitere Firmen lizenziert. Geniale Idee …