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I'm not aware of any existing examples of websites that let you pay for comment bling on individual comments, letting you preview your bling to get the style yo
by gilgoomesh 13y ago
I'm not aware of any existing examples of websites that let you pay for comment bling on individual comments, letting you preview your bling to get the style you prefer as described in section (b) of claim 1. So yes, it does seem novel (which is different to "inventive" but is the criteria required for patents).
There are plenty of comment engines that offer avatars or paid subscriber adornments but few of these are per comment, none are pay-per-comment, none offer different prices depending on the chosen style (the "dynamically adjustable" in the claim) and none let you preview the adornment at upgrade time (instead of at comment time).
The question is not whether the idea is good, whether the idea is radically different -- but whether you've seen this specific set of steps used before.
- derefr 13y agoTumblr has "promoted posts", which do essentially this, but which were only introduced in 2012, after this patent was filed.
- tempestn 13y agoThe idea doesn't need to be radically different, but it does need to be non-obvious.
- diziet 13y agoI can remember a number of marketplaces, including ebay and a number of forum/bulletin board based sites promoting certain postings to have a different border, background color, etc. I do not think that applying the same kind of filtering to include comments instead of topics is that inventive.