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Microsoft Deems Emotiflags Patent-Worthy

Posted by Zonk on from the cute-little-guys-hey-those-are-smilies dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft said you could count on them to improve patent quality. For an example of how they're raising the bar on innovation, check out this just-published patent application for Emotiflags, which Microsoft explains solves the problem of indicating an emotion associated with an email message. At the risk of infringing on the patent, this one Makes Me Mad!"

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  1. Grounds for patent? by pete6677 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like anyone believes that some Tool at Microsoft thought of this first. Seriously, does any Microsoft patent get an automatic stamp of approval by the bored patent examiner?

  2. let them have it by Doppler00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who on earth is going to care about this stupid feature? Oh man! Have to upgrade to the NEXT next version of Windows Office Vista JUST SO I can have the emotiflag feature! Yeah, great innovation their microsoft...