A Selection of Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft: From Factoid Search to Ad Keyword Cross-Selling; Del.icio.us Patent App Published
Bill Slawski and the others at Search Engine Land do a great job of covering newly awarded and/or recently published patents apps. It's a must to monitor. Of course, we've been tracking patents and patent apps on RS for a long time and every now and then we still like to take a look at the USPTO dbase. In the past few weeks we've noticed a bunch of interesting Published Patent APPLICATIONS (not awarded patents) from Microsoft.
and on a Yahoo patent note...A month ago, Yahoo had a patent application published for tagging/Del.icio.us) technology.
As you'll see, Del.icio.us founder, Joshua Schachter, is listed as a co-inventor.
Patent Title: Method and apparatus for tagging data
Inventors: Joshua Schachter (Mountain View, CA); Albert Wenger; (Scarsdale, NY)
The application was filed with the USPTO on October 25, 2006. Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us on December 9, 2005.
Worth noting that this application "is a continuation-in-part of U.S. applications" entitled "System And Method For Selecting Advertising" by J. Schachter, et al. filed Sep. 20, 2005.
Published March 22, 2007.
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