No 5,862,325 till Intermind. Intermind har redan indikerat att P3P troligen bryter mot deras patent. The transferred information controls the communications relationship, including responses by the consumer computer, updating of information, and processes for future communications. Information which changes in the provider computer is automatically updated in the consumer computer through the communications system in order to maintain continuity of the relationship. Transfer of metadata and methods permits intelligent processing of information by the consumer computer and combined control by the provider and consumer of the types and content of information subsequently transferred.
Object oriented processing is used for storage and transfer of information.
The use of metadata and methods further allows for automating may of the actions underlying the communications, including communication acknowledgements and archiving of information. Service objects and partner servers provide specialized data, metadata, and methods to providers and consumers to automate many common communications services and transactions useful to both providers and consumers. A combination of the provider and consumer programs and databases allows for additional functionality, including coordination of multiple users for a single database. This year's Yuri Rubinsky Award winner was Richard Stallman . Richard Stallman in 1984 developed the operating system GNU, which was the first major example of free software.