Re: US patent on an IPv6 geolocation header extension

On 16 January 2018 at 05:44, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> I know there hasn't been much interest in a geolocation header extension,
> but should the topic come up again, see US patent 9,762,683 issued in
> September to A10 which broadly covers adding geolocation data into an IPv6
> header extension.
>
> Copy of patent here:
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/9762683
>
> Legal blog post about policy problems (social policy, not technical stuff):
>
> http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/01/a-patent-for-geotagging-ip-packets-raises-important-internet-law-questions-guest-blog-post.htm
>
> I have no idea whether this patent would survive if challenged, but as you
> know, even if you win a challenge it's a very expensive exercise.

Here's some prior art from 2013.

"Enhancing Location Based IP Services"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-add-location-to-ipv6-header-01

>
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> John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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