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Amazon Seeks Web Services Patent
theodp writes "CNET reports on Amazon.com's latest attempt to make inroads into consumers' wallets, a patent-pending online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web services. The patent application describes a world in which Amazon collects fees from Web Service Providers who charge $500/month for AAA Street Maps, $200/month for driving directions, and $0.01/use for weather and human genome maps." From the article: "Amazon also notes its marketplace technology seeks to address the lack of easy-to-use methods for collecting consumers' Web services payments, as well as to provide Web services companies with ways to manage and monitor their offerings. In its role as an intermediary for the marketplace, Amazon would collect a fee from companies providing the service."
Damn latency!
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Not when I patent the business process of patent hoarding... hah hah haha
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Neither the article nor the patent application mentions anything about $500/mo. for maps, nor any of the other pricing that the /. text mentions.
Maybe the /. article itself should be modded as "flamebait." :)
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This patent violates my US Pat. No. 31415926, relevant parts of the patent are quoted below:
US Pat 31415926: Mechanism for patenting obvious computer-related shit and suing people who are already doing it:
Claimed:
A mechanism, consisting of
a) a lawyer
b) obvious computer-related shit
c) a large collection of buzzwords, including but not limited to "Via tcp/ip," "client-server architecture," "VLSI processor" and "fully TLA compliant"
d) a patent on said shit, including said buzzwords
e) a lawsuit filed by lawyer (a) invoking patent (d) and buzzwards (c)
Methodology:
1. Come up with obvious computer-related shit (b) that tens of thousands of companies worldwide were already doing
2. Hire lawyer (a) to write and file patent (d) using buzzwords (c) to make shit (b) appear nontrivial.
3. Retain lawyer (a) to file lawsuit (e) against companies mentioned in step 1
4. Settle out of court, or drag lawsuit out until said small companies settle
As can be clearly seen, Amazon is infringing on my patent! What does the slashdot community recommend I do?
We stopped using line numbers waaaay long time ago. That's so old-school.
They need to write their patents in, at the very least, C or Pascal.
ASM code should be forbidden.
I want a patent on a process whereby any information you could have asked a person for before (phone numbers, addresses, book titles) will be accessed via a computer and a computer will respond with the information.
No more of this I.P. bullshit! Stand up for old fashioned traditional American union busting, predatory pricing, and worker exploitation!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Surely thats equivelent to patenting capitalism!
Of course Amazon can patent capitalism! They've been patenting everything anyone can do, why should capitalism be an exception?
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