From kde-devel  Mon Nov 10 21:49:25 2003
From: Christian Mueller <cmueller () gmx ! de>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:49:25 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent
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Hello, 

it seems IBM is applying for a patent on the idea behind kwallet
(At least that's how it sounds to me): 
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030159071%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030159071&RS=DN/20030159071

There's also a slashdot article about it:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/09/1648253&mode=thread&tid=155&tid=99

Christian.

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