The chilling effect of software patents

[Steven Bellovin]

In article <10957 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jbuck at galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
} Possibly Usenix can get into the act.  I have a mailing from them in
} front of me that says the following (as part of a membership survey):
} 
} Software Patents
} 
} The US Patent Office has recently issued patents on some disturbing things --
} like the concept of an include file.

Speaking of which -- does anyone have the patent number for this patent?
I'd like to see for myself what it really says.