Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @11:55AM from the patent-for-obtaining-patents dept.

Chris Albrecht writes "VoloMedia announced today that it has been awarded what it called the 'patent for podcasting.' According to the press announcement, patent number 7,568,213, titled 'Method for Providing Episodic Media,' covers: '...the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device.'"

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LOL! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-29 12:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL!
Re:That should go over real well by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-29 14:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm one of the mods who gave you a +1 underrated, despite finding you +1 informative/insightful. Basically, I want to see if the next two mods will jack up this comment to +5 with no label.
That and /. has been giving me ~45 mod points a week and I'm getting bored.
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