I'm not a lawyer but this seems kinda scary.

Press release:
<http://www.siderean.com/newsitem.aspx?pid=20>

The patent itself:
<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=7146362.PN.&OS=PN/7146362&RS=PN/7146362>

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This is an interesting development in light of Endeca's patent for Guided
Navigation (May 26th)
"U.S. Patent No. 7,035,864 covering the company's hierarchical data-driven
navigation system and method for information retrieval, known in the search
and information access markets as the Guided Navigation experience."

http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=15813

From the company site:
http://endeca.com/corporate-info/press-room/pr/p_052406.html

When Endeca visited the University of IL recently (November 2006) to discuss
how their products might be used by our library consortium reference was
made to several other patents in the works. It will be interesting to see
how this conversation continues to develop.

Kathryn La Barre
Assistant Professor
GSLIS/UIUC

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• Self publishing company book
• Christian publishing company
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• Indexing