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    Microsoft patent threat kiosks, e-book

    Microsoft recently obtained a patent may undermine many of its competitors, including retailers of electronic books.

    Originally filed in November 2004, the document in question is entitled "Methods to buy products through a customer portal. Custodians of the patent explains, so that the gate (the application) may carry a dedicated browser to perform a particular action, such as consulting or purchasing eBooks." To do this, the browser (the application) may be deliberately crippled to not only point to a specific page. Typically, the manufacturer of a machine wish to redirect the user, and only to his booth download.

    The magazine EbookNewser believes that this patent would then be a threat to publishers of digital content such as kiosks e-books or specific applications (NYTimes). It has become increasingly common to pick the rendering engine of a browser and redirect users to a web page to perform an action through an application. Thus the patent could cover some practical applications of publishers of e-commerce (Amazon) or even streaming content playback.

    It still remains to be seen what Microsoft has to do with these new rights of intellectual property.

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    Re: Microsoft patent threat kiosks, e-book

    Patents in the U.S. ...

    if it takes 7 years or more for the patent to be validated! It's going to be pretty darn in the reduce number of applications for smartphone, once removing the alleged application (which artificially inflate the number) then they are really just single site browsers customized.

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