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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?"

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  1. Re:RTFA you tards by somersault · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh so you mean it kinda does what Apache does when you get an error (including, but not limited to, 404s), except it keeps the list of redirect pages on a separate server? Sounds like something that should be allowed a patent to me, I mean it's completely non-trivial!

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  2. Re:How stupid can the patent office be.. by Hatta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure enough that you're willing to risk some sort of liability if you issue the patent and prior art is later discovered.

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