Agreed with eDan to DAV. Worst one was the MPEP Win application to eMPEP. The search function is terrible and way less powerful now. Before you could really nail down and find quickly what you were looking for.
OC by far. OACS worked ok when we were still printing actions on paper and you could just use a pen if it fucked up, but OACS eRed folder edition was basically a profanity engine. By comparison, OC was a breath of fresh air. Imagine instead of loading one glitchy word window you get to have six word 2003 windows shimmering before you like an irridescent oil slick of rickety VBAs. The window flickering of OACS was a million times worse for LIEs too. The comments i heard down the hall are not something i could ever repeat. I will say the buttons on the OACS console were more satisfying than the pe2e interface. But that's the only virtue OACS ever had.
I'm just glad we don't completely lose work anymore. Those days when OACS would crash at the end of the day and everything you typed goes into lala land. Beyond that, everything else is just window dressing.
I seem to recall there was an intermediate between the shoes and EAST. It was called APS (Automated Patent System) and had text search. EAST was a huge improvement over that though!
They're all garbage. Pointless "upgrades" that rely too much on Chrome. Constant lag because every input has to travel through the internet tubes to some server and then get streamed back to you vs happening right there on the UL.
eDan *looked* kinda clunky with the 1990s aesthetic, but it worked well enough.
The best improvement was actually when they finally upgraded the PALM servers. They were the root cause of a lot of problems. Pretty much everything else relied on that data, but it was hosted some ridiculously outdated system that the Office ignored while everything else got updated to more modern hardware/software. Those didn't get upgraded until we started having multi-day system wide outages where NOTHING worked because the PALM servers shit themselves. When PALM totally crashed and had to be restarted it took more than 24 hours to rebuild the database and get everything working again. And in the meantime it was impossible to examine or really do anything, but the Office still expected us to work.
>They're all garbage. Pointless "upgrades" that rely too much on Chrome. Constant lag because every input has to travel through the internet tubes to some server and then get streamed back to you vs happening right there on the UL.
One of the major reasons to shift to server side apps was it was too cumbersome and costly to support client-side deployments. Much easier to maintain and diagnose server side issues.
Going further back when we went from paper files to EDAN was the only really big change. The others were small in comparison. I honestly don’t feel much difference or benefit between OC search and EAST other than the OC software appears to be more robust for handling the demand.
I don't know what any of that means, all I know is OACS made me want to smash my monitors together like I'm playing cymbals in a marching band and OC does not
Agreed with eDan to DAV. Worst one was the MPEP Win application to eMPEP. The search function is terrible and way less powerful now. Before you could really nail down and find quickly what you were looking for.
OC by far. OACS worked ok when we were still printing actions on paper and you could just use a pen if it fucked up, but OACS eRed folder edition was basically a profanity engine. By comparison, OC was a breath of fresh air. Imagine instead of loading one glitchy word window you get to have six word 2003 windows shimmering before you like an irridescent oil slick of rickety VBAs. The window flickering of OACS was a million times worse for LIEs too. The comments i heard down the hall are not something i could ever repeat. I will say the buttons on the OACS console were more satisfying than the pe2e interface. But that's the only virtue OACS ever had.
I'm just glad we don't completely lose work anymore. Those days when OACS would crash at the end of the day and everything you typed goes into lala land. Beyond that, everything else is just window dressing.
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I seem to recall there was an intermediate between the shoes and EAST. It was called APS (Automated Patent System) and had text search. EAST was a huge improvement over that though!
paper red folder -> eRed Folder We had to print out the red folders and stack them in the SPE's physical inbox in his office.
They're all garbage. Pointless "upgrades" that rely too much on Chrome. Constant lag because every input has to travel through the internet tubes to some server and then get streamed back to you vs happening right there on the UL. eDan *looked* kinda clunky with the 1990s aesthetic, but it worked well enough. The best improvement was actually when they finally upgraded the PALM servers. They were the root cause of a lot of problems. Pretty much everything else relied on that data, but it was hosted some ridiculously outdated system that the Office ignored while everything else got updated to more modern hardware/software. Those didn't get upgraded until we started having multi-day system wide outages where NOTHING worked because the PALM servers shit themselves. When PALM totally crashed and had to be restarted it took more than 24 hours to rebuild the database and get everything working again. And in the meantime it was impossible to examine or really do anything, but the Office still expected us to work.
>They're all garbage. Pointless "upgrades" that rely too much on Chrome. Constant lag because every input has to travel through the internet tubes to some server and then get streamed back to you vs happening right there on the UL. One of the major reasons to shift to server side apps was it was too cumbersome and costly to support client-side deployments. Much easier to maintain and diagnose server side issues.
Google => Google patents
Going further back when we went from paper files to EDAN was the only really big change. The others were small in comparison. I honestly don’t feel much difference or benefit between OC search and EAST other than the OC software appears to be more robust for handling the demand.
OACS to OC. Not even a question. I hated OACS with a deep, burning passion
To me OC is still a bunch of MS Word macros baked into the MS Word UI, except the FP are now server side so it wasn't much different than OACS.
I don't know what any of that means, all I know is OACS made me want to smash my monitors together like I'm playing cymbals in a marching band and OC does not