Microsoft Patent on the Slider Control
-
Mike Mullikin wrote:
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented.
Just what I said :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008) -
Reading through all that info for a patent on a slide control!!! Sheesh! The mind boggles at the amount of time and effort that goes into patenting something as simple as this.
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
-
Reading through all that info for a patent on a slide control!!! Sheesh! The mind boggles at the amount of time and effort that goes into patenting something as simple as this.
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
-
How else would IP lawyers make money?
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Yeah... I was thinking that as I skimmed over the patent. Bunch of to$$ers.:mad:
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
-
norm .net wrote:
'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented. Some dweeb applies it to a PC and suddenly it's patentable? What a crock!
-
Good lord, how could anyone write that much stuff about a slider control? I'd almost read it just to know, but I'd probably die.
“Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! ) |)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components! -”-”-
-
-
norm .net wrote:
'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented. Some dweeb applies it to a PC and suddenly it's patentable? What a crock!
Actually, you can do that. If you have a technology that's used solely in the physical and mechanical world, and if you apply it to software, you'll likely get a patent.
-
The sad state of things e that if it wasn't MS, it would be some other company or person that would then use it to make a lot of undeserved money.
Yeah. patents are just a necessary evil in this industry. If I had Microsoft stock, I'd pretty much expect them to do this.
-
Actually, you can do that. If you have a technology that's used solely in the physical and mechanical world, and if you apply it to software, you'll likely get a patent.
-
LOL! cough cough, I'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
-
-
Yeah, I don't agree with it either. I'm not sure that the people doing these patents at Microsoft agree either. But they have to do it -- it's just the business that we're in.
-
Than you should look what else they have patented: Link to MS patents
There can be only one.
-
Fortunately we don't have software patents in the EU yet. I hope they never force them here, this is ridiculous.
-
Now on M$ surface is it a physical control same as a old audio rack? How about when surface gets enabled with force feed back and texture technologies?
-
OK, guys, just a note : this patent is NOT about a slider control itself, nor about a scrollbar. It's about using a slider to control some other parameter, e.g. using it to select a shape for another control (square, rectangle, triangle, ...) or a color or something like that. Nevertheless, it is crazy one can patent such a thing !
-
Adobe should patented this as well as tabs.
"...when a shark stops swimming, it blows up." - Nelson Muntz "That photoshopping freak!" - Marge Simpson
-
LOL! cough cough, I'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
Actually try again.. It was first seen on the Commodore 128 and used a lot on the Amiga OS. I know because I wrote one of the tools using that capability! :-)
Take it light... Malakie