1. A method of representing a set of on-line journals, comprising: detecting social network relationships among said on-line journals; aggregating said social network relationships;
and generating a graphical user interface display representing said on-line journals, wherein said display includes an enclosing display object within which are displayed at least one sub-region, said sub-region enclosing a plurality of inner regions,
wherein each inner region within a given sub-region represents an on-line journal having at least one social network relationship with at least one other on-line journal represented by another inner region displayed within said sub-region, wherein said
social network relationships comprise at least one comment written by an author associated with a first one of said on-line journals and wherein said comment was entered into a second one of said on-line journals.
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Prior art, isn't it? Hmm.. quick! Let's patent a social network for prior art searching for patents! ;) |
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JJ: And the patent has already been granted, it's not a case of an application that it's later turned down. I would like to get a look at the US examiner report.
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I guess it's just a matter of being there first, there's nothing I can do. BTW, fernand0 is another one of the "we". |
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But _you_ were there first: the patent is from 26-05-2005 and your papers cited by the patent examiner are from 2003 and 2004.
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I meant being there to patent first. From a shallow examination, he does seem to mention other methods, but even the similarity in title is striking. But I thought it was the patent requester the one who had included the references...
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The first claim seems pretty general even if comments are mentioned but since I haven't read either the patent or your papers carefully, I shouldn't give an opinion yet :-)
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Hi, JJ!
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I really have no idea. I would need a lawyer to check that, and I'm pretty sure that when IBM patents something, they do it on solid ground. |
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Hey JJ,
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