Microsoft sued over dynamic web page technology
PC World | at | by Mike
A patent-holding company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages.Parallel Networks filed suit late last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over two patents, United States Patent Nos. 5,894,554 and 6,415,335 B1.
The company was granted the patents in 1999 and 2002, respectively, according to the court filing.The patents cover systems and methods for managing dynamic Web-page generation requests. Parallel said it believes Microsoft is willfully infringing on them and is demanding a jury trial. Parallel, in Tyler, Texas, was formed originally in the 1990s as InfoSpinner to provide software to make Web sites run faster.