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Social mapping of contacts from computer communication information
This is a Microsoft Patent us7167910 filed in 2002 and issued in 2007, when Web 2.0 was in its infancy. Is someone aware of similar work in the course of next 5/6 years from the issue date.
Thanks.
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Game with Achievement system
I saw this patent own by microsoft.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20060122716
I want to make a game that give a small reward for player who complete some task in game something like kill 50 ...
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Doesn't this mean most current software using scrolling is in violation of Patent 5495566?
In US patent 5495566 (filed 1994-11-22, issued 1996-02-27), Microsoft patented varied speed scrolling depending on the speed of mouse wheel spin, something that is now always used. Does this mean that ...
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How does Apple's patent differ from Microsoft HEL?
How does the patent application US 2011/0037768 “System for Emulating Graphics Operations” filed by Apple (filing date Oct 15, 2010) differ from Microsoft's DirectX/DirectDraw HEL (Hardware Emulation ...
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Prior art for compiler supporting programs as data objects
Microsoft has patent application 2011/0246973 which sounds suspiciously like Lisp. Here's claim 1:
1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that when executed by a ...
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Prior Art for using objects to access database
DataTern has Patent No. 5,937,402 on using objects to access a relational database. The patent was issued in 1999, and obviously people were using objects to access databases since the 80's.
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Prior art on Microsoft patents asserted against Barnes & Noble and Motorola
I was wondering whether there was sufficient prior art for some of the patents that Microsoft is using in (what I consider) strong-arming Android manufacturers? Most of those seem to have been ...
