Check it out through the free ibm Patent database.... um, that is if they
took out patent in the U.S., I am not sure if they cover the Japan region
patents. Anyway there is a lot of interesting reads in the DB and the claims
are about the first thing that you get to see.
-stuart
Titech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) FunMail patent?
>
> The article
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010112/funmail.html
>
> mentions "FunMail uses the unique, patent pending, language
> independent text-to-animation technology developed by FunMail,
> Inc."
>
> Does anyone know what this patent will hold? Due to many trivial
> software patents approved lately I hope this wont be anything
> trivial like "animation based on the user input".
>
> --
> Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
>
>
> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
>
>
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Received on Mon Jan 15 00:20:16 2001