User: jhedley

These Quickies are Stale!

On: Totally 31337 Quickies

Has anyone else noticed that /.'s quickies are rapidly becomming like reading last week's Memepool ?

Amazon has a _lot_ of patents

On: Yet Another Amazon Patent

Here's a list I pulled from IBM's Patent site:

• Internet-based customer referral system (which is what this article is about)
• System and method for generating trusted descriptions of information products
• Data processing system for integrated tracking and management of commerce related activities on a public access network
• Secure method for communicating credit card data when placing an order on a non-secure network
• Secure method and system for communicating a list of credit card numbers over a non-secure network
• Refining search queries by the suggestion of correlated terms from prior searches
• System and method for selecting rows from dimensional databases
• Method and apparatus for producing sequenced queries
• Method for data gathering around forms and search barriers
• Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network

Patent Text Link

On: Yet Another Amazon Patent

Here's the text of the patent: http://www.patents.ibm.com/detai ls?pn=US06029141__ .