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Patents before bed

gnat on 2003-11-22T05:11:55

Microsoft apparently owns filling in forms based on your addressbook data, dating based on failures in games, and something not unlike the web interface to your TiVo.

That's not including something weird around webdav, googling for random shit typed into the URL field of your browser, and automatically generating tests for databases.

I love searching the USPTO database!

--Nat

Dating based on failures in games?

chaoticset on 2003-12-08T18:29:29

This was the only link I clicked, so maybe the others are questionable too, but it brought me to a patent entitled 'Integrated voice access to a variety of personal information services'. Que?

Re:Dating based on failures in games?

gnat on 2003-12-09T00:12:37

Boo! The URLs you look at with patent searches don't seem to be permanent ones. That sucks. And I'm too lazy to go back and redo the searches to make permanent URLs.

Sorry.

--Nat