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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Re:That should go over real well by jcr · 2009-07-29 17:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm sorry...can you rephrase that in the form of a car analogy?
I have a patent on car analogies, you insensitive clod!
-jcr

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