Amazon, Target Hit with Patent Suit Over Shared Registration System

[Kristijntje]

Two early Internet inventors charged Amazon.com (Quote, Chart) and Target (Quote, Chart) with infringing on their patents.

In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, John Klug and Thad Peterson, doing business as Registrar Systems, claim that Amazon.com's e-commerce technology platform improperly uses their system.

According to the suit, the '785 patent covers a method for registering a user at multiple Web sites by storing the user's information in a databases, and then providing users with identifier that allow access; finally, the system supplies the user ID and the stored information to another Web site.

full article: http://news.earthweb.com/ec-news/article.php/3581641

[jezebel]

The first patent was granted in 1998 and the secomd in 2004?