Comments on: Fake Story? Cingular Patents the Emoticon https://jessewarden.com/2006/01/fake-story-cingular-patents-the-emoticon.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: g.wygonik https://jessewarden.com/2006/01/fake-story-cingular-patents-the-emoticon.html/comment-page-1#comment-3286 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:10:28 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=958#comment-3286 the patent application seems to indicate that it only applies to selecting emoticons based on a specific ’emoticon key’ — not the actual usage of emoticons. this is one of those ‘patent the implimentation’ patents, not ‘patent the concept’ patents… though i’d be suprised if there were no ‘prior art’ for this. surely _someone_ had a keypad with a smily face on it, no?

]]> By: Ben Bishop https://jessewarden.com/2006/01/fake-story-cingular-patents-the-emoticon.html/comment-page-1#comment-3285 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:13:55 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=958#comment-3285 They haven’t received the patent yet, just applied for it.

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