[fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: eCash is prior art to Amazon one click?

[iang@iang.org]

 Financial Cryptography Update: eCash is prior art to Amazon one click? 

                           December 20, 2005


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https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000615.html



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In the retail world, Amazon's one-click patent is well known.  What
wasn't realised, it seems, is that DigiCash's eCash software shipped
with the same functionality...	Nick describes how Peter Calveley is
looking to get the patent re-examined using docs from wayback machine.

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-zealander-challenges-amazo
n-one.html
http://www.infoanarchy.org/images/amazonpatent.pdf

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Calveley is the first to point out, as far as I know, that the
automated payment policy setting of ecash, combined with a single click
to order an item (e.g. to download a file or to make a wager), is a
very good prior art reference which anticipates the Amazon one-click
patent (or at least makes it even more blindingly obvious than we
software engineers already thought it was).
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Nick is also callout for all old DigiCash buffs - can you help?

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If you have personal information or know of further documentation about
this feature, or any other product or design prior to 1997 that used
one-click ordering, both myself and Peter Claveley are greatly
interested in collecting this information.
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Calveley is also collecting pledges to cover the fee - follow the links
above.	I should think anyone who's been terrorised by the patent would
donate!  I wonder what form of eCash he'll take?

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