New Media + IT

Via Geek News Central I found out, that Microsoft actually has replied to the story, posts and rumours on the RSS reader patent.
Read Microsoft's Sean Lyndersay's post on it. He's "Program Manager Lead, RSS" at Microsoft.
He doesn't however, in my view, really tell us why they have applied for the patent. The closest he gets [...]

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I just saw the article "Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers" at ZDNet.
Apparently Microsoft is seeking a patent covering:
»A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Patents, RSS ]