January 24, 2005

Time to end a day's work

* Finally got through a good number of patents, ok maybe not 500, but a good 300+ at least. Really ended up skimming a lot of these, just because they were specialized to one application of the technology or another. As in "shop info searches & GPS phone", or "weather conditions and GPS terminal/phone", and so on. I think the 3-click process should be patentable, along with a few of its applications (not too many though). But most of the basic technologies, e.g. showing locations on a map at the phone read off a server, icons as hyperlinks on the phone screen's map, even ways of modelling the process that they use for sending back the info to the client. But I didn't see a single patent that looked at things the non-Web say. That is to say that people surf the web and their phones in very different ways. On the web, at least you stop, sit down and take out your device and get immersed with that experience. On the mobile, life around you is much more immediate, and you experience and use your phone much more practically, so you need something tomatch that, and there is not a single mention of it... Mmm.
* Anyway I need some sleep, now that the new NaviBlog meishis are done (by far and most, the blue looked better than the red so we chose that!), and that the research phase for this patent is over. Now comes the meat-and-potatoes, as we say in Britain, of doing it all up by tomorrow. Hope today will be better than it was yesterday!!

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