Clarification sought on Microsoft XML patent #6,687,897

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Folks,

 

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091

 

Reviewing the text of the patent here:

 

 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=9&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=AN/Microsoft&RS=AN/Microsoft

 

this would appear to be a patent that would cover
such items as xhtml containing Javascipt; xhtml that
contains SMIL, XSLT, SVG, SOAP, WSDL and other

such W3C specifications in tandem with our OASIS

specifications using scripts, such as ebXML and

BPEL scripts and more.

 

Has Microsoft made any official comment as to why
they applied for this patent and what their intention is
with it - and particularly how this may impact OASIS

specifications? 

 

If we can get some specifics would be excellent to

exactly clarify the intention as the patent itself has 

what appear to be broad claims.   Narrow these

down would help substantially in understanding

the scope of this award by the PTO.

 

Thanks, DW.