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

[Rahul Dhesi]

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

>In article <878ygelmtd.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org>,
> Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > In article <c6piil$tj1$1@blue.rahul.net>,
>> >  c.c.eiftj@1-ClickXXS.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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".
>> 
>> Are web-based email services applications?

>Possibly.  But the individual operations within the email service aren't.

>BTW, rather than harping on the phrase "open the application", I'm more 
>concerned about "limited resource computing device"....

I'm concerned about both.  These are all very vague terms with
potentially unlimited domains of use -- the sort of terms that are ideal
for use in defining the claims in a patent.

But unlike me, you seemd to imply, several times, that "open" and
"application" had obvious common meanings -- which meanings you have yet
to state with any prevision.
-- 
Rahul