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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?"

3 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. 404'd! by boristdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    404'd!

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

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

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  3. 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...

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