[Air-L] Microsoft Social Networking Patent Application

[Peter Timusk]

Yes would any one like to discuss this egoverment patent research  
system? is this going to put patent clerks out of a job and the  
consumers will now do the work for the patent office?


On 28-Apr-08, at 5:06 PM, Michael Zimmer wrote:

> Care to expand on what you find amusing? The Peer-to-Patent project?
> Or perhaps MSFT's patent application?
>
> -mz
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> Michael Zimmer, PhD
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> Yale Law School
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> On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Ulf-Dietrich Reips wrote:
>
>> lol
>>
>> At 12:52 Uhr -0700 28.4.2008, info at peertopatent.org wrote:
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> Microsoft has a patent application posted on the Peer-to-Patent site
>>> (http://www.peertopatent.org) for Recommending contacts in a social
>>> network.
>>> It is posted here
>>> http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/20080059576/activity.
>>>
>>> We are soliciting your help and that of the communities you know in
>>> finding prior art that will help the Patent Office to examine this
>>> application and determine if it deserves a twenty-year grant of
>>> rights
>>> to prevent all others from making, using, or selling this invention
>>> (this includes any research and R&D that would touch upon the
>>> claims of
>>> the invention, if patented).  Can you let people know about this
>>> opportunity?  We invite them to submit: 1) prior art, 2) to
>>> annotate the
>>> prior art submitted by others, 3) to vote on the relevance of the
>>> public
>>> submissions, and 3) to suggest fruitful avenues for research for the
>>> USPTO when examining this application.
>>>
>>> Peer-to-Patent is not just another blog, wiki or website.  It is an
>>> "extension" of the government institution!   Posted information
>>> will be
>>> forwarded directly to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
>>> and
>>> be used in the examination process.
>>>
>>> Here's a bit more detail about the application and about Peer-to-
>>> Patent:
>>>
>>> Recommending contacts in a social network
>>> A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target
>>> user
>>> is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are
>>> related to
>>> the target user through no more than a maximum degree of
>>> separation. The
>>> recommendation system identifies the users by starting with the
>>> contacts
>>> of the target user and identifying users who are contacts of the
>>> target
>>> user's contacts, contacts of those contacts, and so on. The
>>> recommendation system then ranks the identified users, who are
>>> potential
>>> contacts for the target user, based on a likelihood that the target
>>> user
>>> will want to have a direct relationship with the identified users.
>>> The
>>> recommendation system then presents to the target user a ranking of
>>> the
>>> users who have not been filtered out.
>>>
>>> Peer-to-Patent is an initiative of New York Law School's Institute
>>> for
>>> Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States
>>> Patent
>>> and Trademark Office (USPTO).  The pilot program allows for public
>>> participation in the patent examination process by inviting the
>>> public
>>> to submit annotated prior art relevant to examining computer and
>>> software-related patent applications.
>>>
>>> The Peer-to-Patent Web site enables those who sign up to:
>>>
>>> --review and discuss posted patent applications
>>>
>>> --share research to locate references to relevant earlier
>>> publications
>>>
>>> --submit these prior art references with an explanation of relevance
>>>
>>> --annotate and evaluate submitted prior art
>>>
>>> --winnow the top ten prior art references, which, together with
>>> commentary, will be forwarded directly to the USPTO
>>>
>>> Reviewing patent applications is free and open to all via the
>>> Peer-to-Patent Web site at www.peertopatent.org.  Bloggers are
>>> invited
>>> and encouraged to host their own conversations about pending patent
>>> applications and then submit prior art via the Peer-to-Patent
>>> website.
>>> Any assistance y ou can provide by encouraging participation in the
>>> Peer-to-Patent review process will be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> The Peer-to-Patent Team
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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