Wow Amazon is getting to many patents for things that anyone can now do. article from http:\/\/slashdot.org<\/p>\n
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\t\t\tYour Rights Online<\/a>:<\/span> Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL<\/a><\/h3>\n
\t \tPosted by \t \tCmdrTaco<\/a> \ton Tuesday October 23, @09:40AM<\/strong>
\nfrom the why-didn’t-i-think-of-that-oh-wait<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\ttheodp<\/a> writes “On Tuesday, Amazon search subsidiary A9.com was awarded U.S. patent no. 7,287,042 for ‘including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting.’<\/a> In the Summary of the Invention, it’s explained that ‘a user wishing to search for ‘San Francisco Hotels’ may do by simply accessing the URL www.domain_name\/San Francisco Hotels, where domain_name is a domain name associated with the web site system.’ Here’s the flowchart<\/a> that helped cinch the deal.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wow Amazon is getting to many patents for things that anyone can now do. article from http:\/\/slashdot.org Your Rights Online: Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23, @09:40AM from the why-didn’t-i-think-of-that-oh-wait dept. theodp writes “On Tuesday, Amazon search subsidiary A9.com was awarded U.S. patent no. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Here’s the flowchart<\/a> that helped cinch the deal.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow Amazon is getting to many patents for things that anyone can now do. article from http:\/\/slashdot.org Your Rights Online: Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23, @09:40AM from the why-didn’t-i-think-of-that-oh-wait dept. theodp writes “On Tuesday, Amazon search subsidiary A9.com was awarded U.S. patent no. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2075\/1702307283_21306fdf0c_o.jpg\"){kind=link}