YAIP (yet another internet patent): geoLocation
quova, inc. has announced that it has secured a US patent related to geoLocation. in case you don't already know, geoLocation is a technology that determines the geographic location of website visitors basically by doing a db lookup of a visitor's IP (data usually based on WHOIS, etc.). i'm not a lawyer and don't know how this will play out but it smells like it could spell the end of my freebie geoLocatorCFC and others like it:- InetAddressLocator (principal version of the geoLocatorCFC is based on this java class)
- ip-to-country (ip/country data)
- rirstats (ip/country data split up into country files)
posted by Paul Hastings @ 9:03 AM
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