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

[Rahul Dhesi]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>In article <c6ov74$o41$1@blue.rahul.net>,
> c.c.eiftj@1-ClickXXS.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:

>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> 
>> >Do you consider advancing the numbers to be "opening an application"?  I 
>> >don't think anyone would seriously consider that to be the same thing as 
>> >the patented methods.
>> 
>> What does it mean to "open" an "application"?

>Since the patent doesn't bother to define them, I assume they're being 
>used in their normal sense when discussing computer use.

In other words, there is no clearly-defined meaning.  Presumably whoever
drafted that patent carefully selected ambiguous terms that could later
be interpreted to mean lots of things.
-- 
Rahul