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Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the makes-my-heart-hurt dept.

theodp writes "Among the patents awarded to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday was one for his invention of Error Processing Methods for Providing Responsive Content to a User When a Page Load Error Occurs, which covers displaying alternate web pages in response to HTTP 404 page-not-found errors. So is this the technology that causes Amazon's Home Page to be displayed when Bezos' MIA Patent Reform Page can't be found?"

9 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. The Plan by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were going to sue everyone on the planet, but they couldn't find their websites.

    And by the way, what constitutes "customized" when its open source software?

  2. 404'd! by boristdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    404'd!

  3. Re:Not prior art by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    What error is displayed when the error server is not found?

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  4. Re:Not prior art by PinkyDead · · Score: 3, Funny

    What article?

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  5. Re:Not prior art by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why:
    Error Displaying Error Message, of course...

    Drat, can't find the pic I wanted...

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  6. Re:How stupid can the patent office be.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not all the patent offices fault. They have to follow the rules, and those rules were not set up for the torrent of patents they receive these days.


    They should use Comcast, then. That should slow the torrents down a bit...

    *cower (Rank 8)*
  7. Wheel patented in Australia by SplatMan_DK · · Score: 4, Funny

    An Australian man has been issued with an innovation patent for the wheel after setting out to test the workability of a new national patent system.

    John Keogh was issued the innovation patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" under a patent system introduced in May 2001.

    (read the rest...)

    :-)

    - Jesper

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  8. Re:Not prior art by jacksonj04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Additionally, a 404 error was detected in displaying this error page"

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  9. Re:Not prior art by cavac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given the average software quality out there, the plugin would probably detect that it can't connect to a server (ignoring that it failed on the error server) and contact the error server "instead".

    The most probable error message would be something in the spirit of "You just transfered huge amounts of data on your non-flatrate account. Your account has been suspended."

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