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Wow, how is this not the modern day version of patenting the hyperlink? Sounds very close to it.
by badclient 15y ago
Wow, how is this not the modern day version of patenting the hyperlink? Sounds very close to it.
- grok1fy 15y agoPatent 5,946,647 (filed on February 1, 1996) seems to cover automatically scanning/recognizing data, creating links for identified data and then providing a way to act on those links. It sounds similar to contemporary technology that created HTML archives from email which scanned data and created http and mailto: links which were then acted on by browser and email clients. Hypermail is one package that did this and was initially released on July 30, 1994. Ref: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q3/0297.html http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q...