patents

Quoted: Google Spreadsheets have their roots in the technology of 2Web Technologies, who developed an application called XL2Web. In June of last year, an

Quoted: Discusses the Bilski case, which expresses the Federal Circuit's opinion on the patentability of business methods and software.

Googleにしても、Amazonにしても、大事なところは絶対見せない。特許で守りさえする。その上でのAPI公開なのでビジネスが成立するわけで、ただの露出狂ではない

Original Comic Chat Patent

Chat Patent - issued 2006 - this looks like a continuation/split from the original 1996 patent.

A Comic Chat Patent - Issued 2001

My patent (assigned to Microsoft) on using GPS data to augment a web browser request. This patent took 6 years(!) to issue (filed in 1998 and issued in 2004).

I'm not aware of any products using this now. The invention uses a new HTTP request header to send the user's GPS location. A GPS-aware server, can then respond with geo-targeted results AND provide a geo-graphic "expiration" zone (the comapatible browser will re-fresh automatically when the user leaves the valid zone).

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Attempt to make GPL-like license for H/W