‘Interactive Web’ Patent Claim

09 February 2012

Hot on the heels of the Honeywell/Nest patent debacle, from Wired’s Joe Mullin: > Michael Doyle, a low-profile Chicago biologist, claims that it was actually he and two co-inventors who invented — and patented — the “interactive web” before anyone else, while they were employed by the University of California back in 1993. Doyle argues that a program he created at the UC’s San Francisco campus, which allowed doctors to view embryos over the nascent World Wide Web, was the first program that allowed users to interact with images inside of a web browser window.