[JDEV] Slashdot article on IM Bots patent
James MacMillan
jamesm at qnx.com
Thu Aug 15 07:26:16 CDT 2002
Slashdot just put up a story that should be of interest to everyone on
this list.
Apparently, the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a huge patent
to ActiveBuddy that
covers every step of IM bot technology.
It is completely ludicris, but it does exist.
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/15/1350230.shtml?tid=155
(links from the text of the article)
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1446781
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=activebuddy&OS=activebuddy&RS=activebuddy
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