Comments: Peerio Patent Application

My impression is Peerio has neglected the individual consumer softclient in favor of it's OEM devices for the enterprise. I don't know anyone who has successfully installed and used Peerio on a PC. And I have repeatedly been denied replies by e-mail.

Oh well, Skype will take my business.

Posted by Rick at February 28, 2005 10:19 PM

You actually don't know how to read patents. you missed the most interesting there. Rings are just an example of use (integrity), other mechanisms can be used. And I didn't find anything about different classes of rings - there are non. But I did find few intersting things - redundancy on top of serverless network is one of them. Patent is a protection mechanism one will be full to apply for all the system (to give competitors a now how), so one thing is certein a lot of questions will remain.

Posted by prostuda at March 1, 2005 07:58 PM

BTW Peerio of course is not a virtual ring, it is a DHT based system (look down the patent)

Posted by prostuda at March 1, 2005 08:05 PM

Probably I don’t know how to read patents. God knows when I receive my own patent papers back from the lawyers, I know they are mine only because the lawyer says so; otherwise I can not recognize them. But I am told that the claims section is the controlling one. Claim 3 says that “the telephone units interfaced to the network form and deform virtual rings as the organizational groups.”

Since not all terminals will have storage mechanism, I said that “data is stored in a sub-ring”. It is not stated in the claims section, but is described in the text section.

The purpose of this entry is to start a discussion so that others can add and increase common understanding. Of course PT will not reveal much information, but others can try to decipher as much as legally allowed. For example, the fact you told me that I “missed the most interesting” point, I have to keep digging.

Posted by Aswath at March 1, 2005 10:08 PM