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Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent)
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent) |
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Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:31:18 -0400 |
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In article <c6piil$tj1$1@blue.rahul.net>,
c.c.eiftj@1-ClickXXS.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> >> >> What does it mean to "open" an "application"?
> >>
> >> >....I assume...
> >>
> >> In other words, there is no clearly-defined meaning....
>
> >Does the information given in the Description section of the patent
> >count? It uses the verb "launch" rather than "open", but it's pretty
> >clear what common computer activity is referred to.
>
> But you haven't been able to define it or point to a definition.
>
> Most Microsoft users use "open" to mean "whatever happens after I click".
I doubt anyone thinks that when they click on a link in a browser and it
goes to another page or submits a form that this is "launching an
application".
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), (continued)
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Tim Jackson, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Christopher C. Stacy, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Alun, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/28
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/28
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- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Rahul Dhesi, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Christopher C. Stacy, 2004/04/29
- Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/29
Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent), Barry Margolin, 2004/04/27