Сейчас они опять взялись за старое и опять запантетовали нечто совершенно очевидное и патента не заслуживающее: работу с несколькими "корзинами" для каждого юзера вместо одной.
Вот описание патента. Звучит, как плохая шутка:
A computer system for conducting electronic commerce. The system provides multiple electronic shopping carts for each user. Each electronic shopping cart has an indication of items currently within the electronic shopping cart and billing and shipment information. The system generates a display that identifies each of the electronic shopping carts and sends the generated display to a user computer system. The system then receives a selection of one of the identified electronic shopping carts from the user computer system and receives a selection of an item from the user computer system. In response to receiving the selection of the item, the system adds the item to the selected electronic shopping cart. The system then receives an indication to checkout the items in the selected electronic shopping cart from the user computer system. In response to receiving the indication to checkout, the system ships the items in the selected electronic shopping cart in accordance with the shipment information of the selected electronic shopping cart and bills for the items in the selected electronic shopping cart in accordance with the billing information for the selected electronic shopping cart. The system thus allows a user to select each of the electronic shopping carts for adding items to each electronic shopping cart.И это, значит, инновация, да? Это такая новая оригинальная идея, требующая защиты от конкурентов? Уроды :(
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Ну и раз уж о патентах, то вот есть ещё замечательный патент (спасибо,
dyak): A method of painting on a work surface using the posterior of an infant. О том, значит, как рисовать при помощи задницы младенца. Оригинально! 