But Congress voted to require all body scanners to have privacy-protecting software, and the TSA announced in February it was phasing out backscatter systems because they could not meet the new standard.
NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services.
The software, which requires no cumbersome serial number codes, also enables protecting or exporting clips to save indefinitely and setting up "hot zones" to further tailor the motion activation.
IBM's pledge to make available a slew of its software patents by itself will do little to address the problem of too many patents protecting the wrong things.
The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.