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1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent)


From: theodp
Subject: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent)
Date: 27 Apr 2004 13:33:58 -0700

Not to be outdone by Amazon's 1-Click patent, Microsoft snagged a
patent from the USPTO Tuesday for a 'Time based hardware button for
application launch', which covers causing different actions to occur
depending upon whether a button is pressed for a short period of time,
a long period of time, or multiple times within a short period of
time. So does pressing car radio buttons for different periods of time
to change or set stations constitute patent infringement?

See the patent at:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,727,830

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