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M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« on: September 03, 2008, 12:07:12 AM »
With all that money thi is the best thing they could patent?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-keyboard-patent,6307.html

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Microsoft recently applied for and received Patent #7,415,666. Microsoft has just patented the functions of two keys that are on every keyboard that is manufactured on this planet – Page Up & Page Down. Seriously. This patent was originally filed in March 4, 2005 and was awarded August 19, 2008.

This clearly shows how broken and dysfunctional the patent system really is. Maybe someone should quickly run and apply for a patent on Backspace – It is without doubt one of the most widely used keys on any keyboard! Or maybe Ford should patent the steering wheel or gas pedal? Maybe I could patent the process of typing a Blog!

Here is a excerpt from the actual patent Microsoft was recently awarded :

Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments

A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page Up keyboard key/button allows a user to begin at any starting vertical location within a page, and navigate to that same location on the next or previous page. For example, if a user is viewing a page starting in a viewing area from the middle of that page and ending at the bottom, a Page Down command will cause the next page to be shown in the viewing area starting at the middle of the next page and ending at the bottom of the next page. Similar behavior occurs when there is more than one column of pages being displayed in a row.


Maybe it is because the patent offices are over worked, or maybe the internal processes they utilizes just need some serious revamping. None the less, the situation is broken and needs to be addressed.

So does this means all keyboard manufacturers have to pay royalties to Microsoft on each keyboards made ... since 1980?

Or will new keyboards no longer have said keys?
God is dead.

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M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2008, 12:26:34 PM »
All I'd go is change the name of the keys on keyboards I make to Go Up, Go Down and then see what microsoft would try to come up with...

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2008, 12:53:49 PM »
question

when last have you used your pg up an dn kees?

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2008, 01:13:23 PM »
LoL I can't even remember

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2008, 01:56:33 PM »
the last time i used those keys is when i used to play jedi knight 2 jedi academy alot

i used to realllllllll beast dah game.

an had to use almost every single key on de keyboard for force powers  lol

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2008, 03:06:21 PM »
Yesterday i used them :P U Mouse and Logitech babies

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2008, 03:09:05 PM »
lawl nuh uh!! iam a keyboard man!!!

unlike certain script kid *coughngwcough*

buh pgup an dn jus so.... noooob
pfft

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Re: M$ has patents to your Pg/Up and Pg Down keys
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2008, 03:09:05 PM »

 


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