Computer use meter and analyzer
CA 2223919 C · Owner: Stanziani, Steven N. · Inventors: Costello, Stephen J.; Coffey, Steven R.; Pinsley, David B.
Overview
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The subject system measures and reports the use of a personal computer by a user through a log file (11). The log file (11) includes entries corresponding to predetermined events and can report on the applications used and communication functions engaged in by the user. The log files (11) from one or more computers may be assembled and analyzed in order to ascertain computer use habits for computer software computer, hardware and computer communications. The system may also be used to predict computer use trends and to represent computer use history.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 7, 1996 and granted July 9, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 7, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 7, 2018.
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