Grammatical Error Makes Patent Invalid

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Here’s the copy in question.

6. A method for enabling the exchange of reporting system information over a computer network comprising the steps of: receiving at one or more web servers using HTTP a user request for reporting system information from a user system; transmitting the request to a reporting server; the reporting server executing the reporting request from a the client system using and transmitting the retrieved information to the at least one web server; and converting the report to HTML or DHTML and transmitting it to the user system without downloading any executable files; wherein the web server does not perform any reporting system operations; and wherein the reporting system comprises an OLAP system.

Can you spot the error? No, it’s not the two obvious ones.

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