If you bother to actually read the patent, I have not come across any examples of prior art. Not that prior art may not exist, but I've never seen or heard of it.
The patent is for the storage of your preferences and selections from a database of available digital and/or broadband content, which you may or may not decide to order at some point. If/when you do order the content is delivered on-demand. The point being that subsequent "visits" do not require you to start from scratch indicating what types of content you want to browse/select from, and previously marked items of interest are immediately available to order without the user having to "search" for them again.
So, what is the real diference between the Libranet "system" and everyone elses "package". They stress that they are different because their product is a system, but never really give solid examples of the way(s) their system is different than a package.
There is almost too much variety available to make a decision on which system/package to use without going to the trouble of trying several of them. While that can be fun, sometimes you just need to get something installed and running without too much "buyers remorse" after the system is up and running.
I have used various unixes (both BSD and AT&T style) and also linux (Redhat) in the past for a variety of situations, but trying to grok the advantages of the different systems/packages for linux can be frustrating.
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The patent is for the storage of your preferences and selections from a database of available digital and/or broadband content, which you may or may not decide to order at some point. If/when you do order the content is delivered on-demand. The point being that subsequent "visits" do not require you to start from scratch indicating what types of content you want to browse/select from, and previously marked items of interest are immediately available to order without the user having to "search" for them again.
So, what is the real diference between the Libranet "system" and everyone elses "package". They stress that they are different because their product is a system, but never really give solid examples of the way(s) their system is different than a package. There is almost too much variety available to make a decision on which system/package to use without going to the trouble of trying several of them. While that can be fun, sometimes you just need to get something installed and running without too much "buyers remorse" after the system is up and running. I have used various unixes (both BSD and AT&T style) and also linux (Redhat) in the past for a variety of situations, but trying to grok the advantages of the different systems/packages for linux can be frustrating.
And 84.7% of all statistics are just made up on the spot...
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The next generation, the Caplet PC, will be easier to swallow and won't leave such a bad taste in your mouth.
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