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- Ninjab3ar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+137#1 is probably patents.
- wild, on 10/11/2007, -3/+57"On July 31, 1790 Samuel Hopkins was issued the first patent for a process of making potash, an ingredient used in fertilizer. The patent was signed by President George Washington. Hopkins was born in Vermont, but was living in Philadelphia, PA when the patent was granted."
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/01-33.htm - theone3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45Yeah, and it's mine. My lawyer will be contacting you all shortly.
- sweetrelease, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45the first 4 are the year, there have been 123353 this year
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -2/+40I would say #1 would be running jokes into the ground.
- egolatra, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28hopefully, we won't need the friend codes anymore
- strictnein, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33An Invitation system... so, like on Xbox Live? Amazing innovation!
- Beau, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25If # 1 is fire, then is # 2 the wheel?
- hashish4all, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18It is not a patent. It is a publication number of a patent application. They haven't been granted anything for this application. 2007 is the year, and 0123353 is the number of published applications in 2007.
- boyasunder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Yay! Someone knows the difference between a published patent application and an issued patent.
People, almost every application, no matter how good or bad, gets published; that doesn't mean it will end up a patent or that the claims will issue as they read in the application.
Hell, look at this one for some guy claiming "Godly Powers." There's no way the gov't's going to issue this: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20070035812.html - iwanttodiggthis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Xbox Live sucks. It requires you to use idiotic names like "GeorgeWBushRules" which could be very inappropriate for children. The Wii understands this, and it uses universally-understandable codes that are completely safe for children -- especially Christian children, who are particularly impressionable.
- re0turin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10@beau
the wheel was #2001100012 patented in 2001
REF:http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
see 2001 winners - scheibs14, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10To answer the poster's question, that number is for published applications. Issued patents are around 7.2+ million right now
- loconet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Here is patent #0000001
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=0000001.PN.&OS=PN/0000001&RS=PN/0000001 - maccam94, on 10/11/2007, -3/+112007 (Year)
01 (Month)
23 (Day)
353 Submission number of the day? Or review time? - Ashkc88, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@iwanttodiggthis
Every game/system with online multiplayer has screen names. On the DS there are still screen names along with the friends code. Whatever my name on my DS is, is what people see me as online, so if I told my DS my name was "loves_to_splooge" little kids who I'm playing with would see that. Plus you can report people with inappropriate screen names on xbox live. ALSO, kids should be banned from xbox live anyways because they are usually too mouthy and abuse their mics saying all kinds of things worse than anyone will ever have as their screen name. One last thing, It's up to the parents to babysit their kids, not xbox live. It's almost obvious they will hear stuff when talking to random people on the internet with a mic. - doshindude, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Please no more friend codes........
If this is true, maybe the online system won't be as cryptic as originally thought to be. - b3mus3d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6One day, Nintendo will unsuck at online gaming.
It's more a matter of when really. - jgzman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I should point out that if they started at #1, and issued one patent per second, it would take some 636 years before they issued this one.
Alternately, you might read the number 20070123353 as 2007/01/23 - 353 Or, the three-hundred fifty-third patent filed for on the twenty-third of January, this year. Or something similar. - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5That would be a waste of a patent...
it would be like locking the doors of a car that you know will stall before getting out of your driveway anyway. - jacobsor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Buried for the description being totally wrong.
Nintendo has NOT received a patent -- it has only filed a patent application. The application could very well be rejected by the Patent Office. - fuzzboxer, on 10/11/2007, -7/+11Dugg for description alone.
- Dracker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Great. What Nintendo really needs is improvements to how its online system works. Ditching Friend Codes altogether would be better, but anything that streamlines the matchmaking process is welcome.
Now, as far as the patent is concerned, it's rather frivolous as this feature is pretty standard and in use in other systems that implemented this well before Nintendo. - 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4i saw this video of mario strikers, the narrator was a developer. it had the joining/connecting game process in detail. it lists friends.
(found it)
link pertains to mario strikers only
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=19984&type=mov&pl=game - missingnoh4x, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Just so long as you stay away from the number I patented, 09 F9 11 02...
- Tarnum, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Completely unenforcible. Prior art exists – the game invitations in ICQ (1998), the Kali network - chat and virtual network for multiplayer....
- MadScientist420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@Wild
Yep. I was just going to chime in on that. The patent is hanging in the halls in the chemistry building here at Purdue. BTW potash = potassium carbonate. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Patent number 9482-2839-2432-0012
- aryo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2not if they can show that their way of doing it is distinct than said prior art (and that they actually came up with it), yet still novel.
- Jammie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3http://www.google.com/patents?id=krA-AAAAEBAJ&dq=patent:1&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2007&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2007&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2007
Patent number: 1 for "BAIL AND OTHER ROADS" - judremy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Actually, they are using this already for Mario Strikers from reports I've heard.
- mbthompson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Dugg for the very funny description (I love asides/parenthetical statements)!
- mt066, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You guys do actually know that is not the patent number.....right?
- SublimeRuin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I believe that was the first trademark/copyright...not patent....
- glacius99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2But I invented the question mark..
- tjrc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's not a patent; it's a patent application.
- kingpowrie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2sorry digg me down
- Nattybumpoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't think that this patent will hold up. If this is already prevalent among other systems. I would refer you to one of the two recent supreme court rulings regarding intellectual property. If they have something very innovative that is not considered commonplace or obvious then it might hold its water.
- mc1123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So, it's more of a serial # than a # determining the order of the patent. cool.
- RKMBrown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Right not a patent yet.. their Primary claim is interesting if fairly narrow:
"1. A method for inviting users to play video games comprising:
receiving at an invitation server an invitation from a first user logged into the invitation server using a first game system that invites a second user logged into the invitation server using a second game system to play a game;
forwarding the invitation from the invitation server to the second user;
receiving at the invitation server an acceptance of the invitation from the second user;
storing invitation acceptance data indicative of the second user's acceptance at the invitation server after the second user logs out of the invitation server; and
when the second user subsequently logs back into the invitation server, sending to one or both of the first and second users information based on the stored invitation acceptance that enables the first and second users to play the game. "
So the new trick is remembering there was a acceptance to play stored on the invitation server such that when someone logs and comes back and if both become available they get hooked up in some fashion. Whether they would agreesively seek to charge for this idea if they get a patent and / or how diffucult it will be to work around it if they do get it will have to be seen. But i do like the idea of not just dumping the game i'm in and being able to live through a disconnect as well. - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Nope, no chance of there being prior art here...
- xxTazxx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@loconet
Oh sh*t if that's number one then (if you click on images), it IS a patent for a wheel (an adaptation to it). - jgzman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Or else, 0123 might be January twenty-third. Dates are written that way in the military, on certain forms. 20070123.
- loconet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@tjrc
Who said it was the first patent? Hell, who said this conversation was about the "first" patent. The description mentions No. 1. It's about the patent number (ie the identifier), not its ordinal number. That is precisely what the URL I posted points to.
You may want to identify the conversation context before throwing pedantic remarks ;) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Title is inaccurate, they only filed an application:
http://www.asitri.com/app/asitri/uspto?pageid=pn_search&pn=20070123353&wr=on - iofthestorm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2
- plnegative1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12007.01.23.353 ... noobs
- Plezops, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Here is the first patent:
at Google/Patents
http://www.google.com/patents?id=krA-AAAAEBAJ&dq=patent:1&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2007&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2007&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2007
and at the USPTO
http://www.google.com/url?id=krA-AAAAEBAJ&q=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser%3FSect2%3DPTO1%26Sect2%3DHITOFF%26p%3D1%26u%3D%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fsearch-bool.html%26r%3D1%26f%3DG%26l%3D50%26d%3DPALL%26RefSrch%3Dyes%26Query%3DPN%252F1&usg=AFQjCNEKmU6hb4u_jZvdSMwvZNRSIJFc3A - TrojanGuy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Next they'll patent sending voice messages to friends playing videogames.
- tjrc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@loconet, @Jammie
US Patent #1 is not the first US patent; it's just the first patent since they started numbering them. -
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