{"id":4972,"date":"2012-05-31T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2012-05-31T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:06:44","slug":"amazon-patents-electronic-gifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/amazon-patents-electronic-gifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Patents Electronic Gifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/amazon-granted-broad-patent-electronic-gifting-digital-goods\/\">GeekWire<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/05\/31\/0340203\/amazon-patents-electronic-gifting\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/amazon-granted-broad-patent-electronic-gifting-digital-goods\/\"><p>&#8230;the company has <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=8,190,519.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/8,190,519&amp;RS=PN\/8,190,519\">just received a patent<\/a> on what has become a common method of giving presents &mdash; a system for selecting digital gifts such as movies, music or e-books, sending an electronic notification to a recipient, and allowing them to download the gift.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine there&rsquo;s more prior art on this than on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1-Click\">one-click patent<\/a>. Or are they only claiming the idea of letting the recipient reject the gift?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeekWire (via Slashdot): &#8230;the company has just received a patent on what has become a common method of giving presents &mdash; a system for selecting digital gifts such as movies, music or e-books, sending an electronic notification to a recipient, and allowing them to download the gift. I imagine there&rsquo;s more prior art on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}