Comments on: Apple Patent Suggests Move Into Smart-Home Energy Management

By: DimDragoev

DimDragoev — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:34:11 +0000

How this patented, or put in a patent approval procedure patent , correlates with the NES of Echelon

By: bempey

bempey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:30 +0000

Displaying energy consumption (something that’s been done for decades, although not popular in the past) and moving the data over a well-established technology is not even close to be innovative enough to patent.
This is almost as bad as Microsoft patenting the use of the tab-key to cycle between links on a web-page after every other browser had already implemented it.
The USPTO really has to do something about these junk patents that hinder innovation, rather than fostering it.

By: Martin Sharifi

Martin Sharifi — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:49:19 +0000

With the low baud rate limitation on PLC, how high speed internet or voice, data communication is possible