Edited by author 01-20-2003 01:04 PM
Oh, for crikey's sake. If I understand this complaint properly, they're claiming to have a patent on frame-based navigation, where your navigation bar is constant, and the "main" frame changes around.
This has been the method of navigation for many a crapola Front Page website for YEARS. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But let's go way back and see what Microsoft looked like in late 1996 (notice the strip across the top):
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/.../www.microsoft.com/- Robert K. Brown