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"When you see what you want, you press a number that signifies “buy,” and the household computer takes over, places the order, notifies the store of the home ad
by pg 18y ago
"When you see what you want, you press a number that signifies “buy,” and the household computer takes over, places the order, notifies the store of the home address and subtracts the purchase price from your bank balance."
One-click online ordering in 1968. The only difference is that the info is stored on the client rather than the server. This makes it pretty clear how badly the Amazon patent fails the nonobviousness test.
- river_styx 18y agoEventually the legal world will catch up with technology, and those kind of silly patents will be no more.
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoWe can only hope...
- palish 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China