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Eolas (an acronym for "Embedded Objects Linked Across Systems", and Irish for "knowledge") is a...

Eolas (an acronym for "Embedded Objects Linked Across Systems", and Irish for "knowledge") is a United States technology company. It was founded in 1994 by Michael David Doyle. His University of California, San Francisco team has claimed to have created the first web browser that supported plugins. They demonstrated it at Xerox PARC, in November 1993, at the second Bay Area SIGWEB meeting. The claim has been contested by Pei-Yuan Wei, developer of the earlier Viola browser, a claim supported by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and other Web developers. Wei was only able to partially demonstrate equivalent Viola capabilities at the 2003 Eolas v. Microsoft trial, embedding a local file rather than a remote file given a short time to do so, and thus fell short of proving prior art to the court's satisfaction. In 1995, the founders of Eolas released WebRouser, a proof-on-concept browser based on Mosaic that implemented plugins, client-side image maps, and web-page-defined browser buttons and menus. US patent 5,838,906, titled "Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document," was filed