[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey covered by IBM patent?

[Justin Mason]

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ho hum.  Another day, another overbroad software patent.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,886,013.WKU.&OS=PN/6,886,013&RS=PN/6,886,013

HTTP caching proxy to filter and control display of data in a web browser

[....]

Claims:

  1. A method of controlling presentation on a client of a Web document
  formatted according to a markup language and supported on a server, the
  client including a browser and connectable to the server via a computer
  network, the method comprising the steps of:

  as the Web document is received on the client, parsing the Web document
  to identify formatting information;

  altering the formatting information to modify at least one display
  characteristic of the Web document; and

  passing the Web document to the browser for display.

[....]

Sounds like that claim covers Greasemonkey, imo.

- --j.
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