Saturday, January 28, 2006
Cingular Manages to Patent Emoticons on Cell Phones
Posted by Mike Temporale in "NEWS" @ 04:30 PM
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15792.php
"The USA based mobile operator, Cingular Wireless has managed to get a patent on the concept of using emoticon on mobile phones. While the aim of the patent is to enable the displaying of MSN style graphics on handsets, they also managed to patent the delivery of text based emoticon - so presumably sending :) via an SMS - if selected via a dedicated or softkey, would be a breach of the patent in future."What the? Oh man, someone has to take the patent office aside and give them a good talking to. :twak:
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