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Microsoft patents 'navigating paginated content in page-based increments'
- jws 18y agoSurely this is part of a plan to prove the inanity of software patents in order to have them all thrown out. I mean... they can't be serious, can they? If you ask a programmer to implement a "page down" function, they have to make a couple decisions that can lead to what... three possible sane outcomes? This is one of the outcomes. * Am I talking screen page or document page? * Do I leave a little bit of overlap for context? * If there are multiple document pages on the screen, do I just go one or do I skip past all the ones that have already been displayed? * If there are fractional document pages on the screen, do I skip past the undisplayed portion? Document,No,Just one,N/A = patent. I wonder if they covered the other 87.5% of the solution space in other filings.