| Re: Microsoft wants to patent smilies! WTF?! [message #164338 is a reply to message #164083] |
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warranto
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Heh, considering how detailed you have to be in a patent, I wonder how the smiley/the way it's sent would be described.
Oh, and mrpirate, it has nothing to do with how they are sent, what they are trying for is this:
example: patent includes that the ";" character and the ")" character will combine in that order to create the  image when compiled after transmission.
example: patent includes that the ":" character and the "D" character will combine in that order to create the  image when compiled after transmission.
in the above examples the ";", ")", and ":", "D" characters will be patented in the order needed to create the";.)" and ":.D" sequence (this will also be patented) to create the final and after transmission (which will be patented as well)
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