Re: 1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click, More-Clicks (New Microsoft Patent)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c6ov74$o41$1@blue.rahul.net>,
 c.c.eiftj@1-ClickXXS.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> >Do you consider advancing the numbers to be "opening an application"?  I 
> >don't think anyone would seriously consider that to be the same thing as 
> >the patented methods.
> 
> What does it mean to "open" an "application"?

Since the patent doesn't bother to define them, I assume they're being 
used in their normal sense when discussing computer use.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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