Ten minutes with software patents
One of the news of last week was that Facebook was granted a U.S. patent on news feed. I share the opinion that software patents should not exist:
Here are some other insanities that I found quickly:
- Method and system for storing, navigating and accessing files within an operating system through the use of a graphical thumbnail representing the video display of the active document within the active application, and organized chronologically by the most recent file captured
- Method to identify a supplier of good or services over the Internet by providing a home page with at least one link to a directory Web site for a class of goods or services
- System and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space
- Method for sending multi-media messages using emoticons
- Method and apparatus for automatic software replacement
- Delayed uploading of user registration data
- System and process for encoding selected data structures in browser cookies
- Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image (update via @dhh)