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The patent - issued on Valentine's Day - covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders.

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Potentially tens of thousands of businesses - not only software makers employing its business processes but companies offering rich-media on their Websites - could be subject to licensing fees when they use rich-media
technology over the Internet.

Källa: http://www.informationweek.com/story...leID=180206472