More patent craziness

I have written in the past for my disdain of the current state of the US Patent office.  In another example of absurdity they have issued to Cisco a patent for any "system and method for providing integrated voice, video and data to customer premises over a single network."  Seems like if Cisco wished to enforce this one there are going to be some pretty big fights with carriers of all kinds (cable, phone, etc.).  Hard to believe that someone did not realize that this is something that many people have been doing for some time.  Just another example of why something has to be done here. You can read more about this one here.