17, May, 10
05, Apr, 10
Facebook Gets Sued Over ‘Community’ Patent
Posted by Raj Dash, under Legal, news, PatentsTechnology patent trolling seems to have become a regular pasttime — something that is influenced proprtionally with lucrative potential of a patent, and which the long-flawed approval process at the USPTO (U.S. Patent & Trademark Office) abets in the first place. Now there’s another questionable patent lawsuit, this one involving ‘online communities’, and naturally, Facebook [...]
25, Feb, 10
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated)
Posted by Nick O'Neill, under news, PatentsOn Tuesday, Facebook was awarded a major patent for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network”. This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue other social networks which are infringing on their patent. Included in the [...]
25, Feb, 10
Facebook Patent For Measuring Use Affinity Toward Applications Is Published
Posted by Nick O'Neill, under news, Patents, PlatformThis morning Facebook was awarded a patent for the “resource management of social network applications”. The patent describes a method in which resources are allocated to applications based on the affinity toward those applications expressed through various forms of interactions. While components of the patent have been made irrelevant by upgrades to the [...]