New patent grants a company to collect fee for the use of ajax, rich web, web2, etc

This is nasty! US patent system should either be revisited or demolished. A small company was grated a patent that can possibly restrict the public or "open-source" use of rich web based applications like ajax, web2, etc. What does that mean? Probably google, yahoo, macromedia, microsoft and all other rich content lib/application makers will have to pay a fee to this company for what they are doing now.

Below links will give you detailed information:
The patent 779831
Rich-media applications are designed and created via the Internet. A host computer system, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user computer system via an Internet connection. User account information and rich-media component specifications are uploaded via the established Internet connection for a specific user account...

The company
Balthaser makes a web-based design tool called pro:FX that enables users to build their own web applications using an interactive system constructed with Flash. Balthaser's patent covers almost exactly that process, but it is broad enough to encapsulate web based design tools constructed with virtually any technology or framework ..

the discussion
Now any site that uses rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles will need a licence.

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