Are Amiga patents being used by other companies?

[teo]

Im out of my league on this one, but from memory, the 68000 was internally 32bit bit, but external of the cpu the machines (A500 etc) were all 16bit. my guestimate is that the interface to the 68000 cpu was 16bit?

btw, bootable cd's are everywhere now, i guess nearly every platform has them. But getting royalties for it would never be enforcable in court, be harder than trying to get royalties on gif's ;-) but this has been discussed on a.org before...

Does anyone know where, or how to get a list of the patents that are amiga's. I reckon it would be a most interesting read.

[prowler]

whabang wrote:
BTW, wasn't Sega MegaDrive/Genesis the first 32-bit console?
I mean, the 68000, which the MegaDrive is based on,  is 32-bit right??? :-?

From what I can remeber;

32 bit Addressing mode,
24 bit DMA.

The 68020 was the first 68x00 CPU to really support 32 bit.

[DaveP]

BTW i just Sparked up a packed-phat bowl of gan

zzzzzzz

Well I just picked my nose and flicked a bogey into the waste bin.

If I wasn't following the "no personal attacks" rule at the moment
Id ................................... [ censored ]

Suffice to say your tedious "ooh I do drugs" references are wearing thin.

I wonder why nobody knows this page, where every Amiga patent is listed. Now i'll put an end to this.  ;-)
Follow this link to the European patent office. Search for the company "Amiga" and you'll find some patents.

I've read them all some time ago. They are very interisting. And it's interisting to see how some companies have worked around the patents, for example the "hiding menus": Simply don't hide them.

Have fun reading them.

By the way, I've found a new patent from January 14, 2003 signed by Amiga Development LLC.
It means, they're working!!!

[Bodie]

siciliano wrote:
By the way, I've found a new patent from January 14, 2003 signed by Amiga Development LLC.
It means, they're working!!!

Which one is it dude?  Give the patent number if you can :-) .

Cheers  :pint:  :pint:

[DaveP]

It was filed in 1998, and granted in 2003.

[carls]

Hey look at this :-)
It must be the "right mouse button" patent discussed earlier?

CURSOR CONTROLLED USER INTERFACE SYSTEM
Publication date: 1988-09-20  
Inventor(s): MICAL ROBERT J (US)  
Applicant(s): COMMODORE AMIGA INC (US)  

Abstract
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Menu item selection is performed in a personal computer system through the use of a mouse device which has means to allow the user to call up onto the display a header block which performs the function of the menu bar and to erase the header block from the screen when menu operations are not required. Multiple menu items can be selected during the same menu session by using a pair of mouse buttons to generate a sequence of selection commands which are utilized by unique system software to accumulate plural item selections without terminating the menu operation.
 

[Rudei]

By the way, I've found a new patent from January 14, 2003 signed by Amiga Development LLC.

Is that actually Amiga Inc though or sum1 else?

[redrumloa]

DaveP wrote:
It was filed in 1998, and granted in 2003.

Ahh GateAmiga patent, meaning Gateway patent now. I didn't think Bill Mc or Fleecy themselves were programers or design engineers ;-)

[BouncingAyatollah]

@teotwin

Im out of my league on this one, but from memory, the 68000 was internally 32bit bit, but external of the cpu the machines (A500 etc) were all 16bit. my guestimate is that the interface to the 68000 cpu was 16bit?

Yeah, that's why the Atari ST was called "ST", for Sixteen/Thirty-two. Later Atari machines which used full 32-bit CPUs were called TT.

[chris]

I never realised Gateway (aka Amiga Dev LLC) had filed quite so many patents.  They all seem to relate to a STB/PVR type device, seemingly decoding digital TV services, merging EPGs properly, adding internet streamable TV services to a channel list with broadcast channels, searching for channel tuning information by entering a channel id, even automatically deciding what your favourite channels are (isn't this similar to what TiVo and the Windows 2000 start menu does?)

Quite curious.  Didn't Gateway release some sort of Internet STB not long after AI bought the Amiga name from them?

Chris

Patent Number: US6507951  
Publication date: 2003-01-14  
Inventor(s): WUGOFSKI THEODORE D (US)  
Applicant(s): AMIGA DEV LLC (US)  
Requested Patent:  US6507951  
Application Number: US19980002580 19980105  
Priority Number(s): US19980002580 19980105  
IPC Classification: H04N5/445; G06F3/00; G06F13/00  
EC Classification: H04N5/445M  
Equivalents: AU1951399,  WO9935823  


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DaveP wrote:
It was filed in 1998, and granted in 2003.

You're right!
Sorry, I got mixed up with filed  and granted. Thx for the correction.

don't feel bad...

I did the same thing..


heh.