Re: No more dbs about SOCIAL NETWORKS

From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:52:21 -0400
Message-Id: <jtgeq3-ghe.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>


Brian Selzer wrote:

> I don't understand your post. Blogs are mentioned only as an example of
> what the invention isn't. It looks to me like the company this guy runs
> or works for built a specialized application for meeting people such as
> for
> online dating. How will that affect blogs?
>
> "Mauricio Nivaldo Andres Monsalve Moreno" <mnmonsal_at_dcc.uchile.cl> wrote
> in message news:eb0h05$1su$1_at_helcaraxe.dcc.uchile.cl...
>>
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,069,308.PN.&OS=PN/7,069,308&RS=PN/7,069,308 >>
>> Let's cry. Goodbye blogs...

As I read the patent, it appeared to me they were describing a table of people and a way to cross-reference that table. If this impression is true, then the absurdity of the patent being granted promises greater and more dangerous absurdities to follow.

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Sat Aug 05 2006 - 14:52:21 CEST

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