Microsoft Patents Saving The Name Of A Game
from the yeah,-that's-non-obvious dept
theodp writes "As if there weren't enough dodgy patents, here's an excerpt from one granted to Microsoft Tuesday for a Method and apparatus for displaying information regarding stored data in a gaming system: 'When saving a game, the saved game data may include a descriptive name of the saved game, a graphic representation of the state of the game when the game was saved, a description of the game state when the game was saved, and a date and time that the game was saved.'" I'm trying to figure out if there's more to this patent, but the more I read, the worse it seems. How is this possibly "non-obvious"?
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Explain to me how filling in a default name is non-obvious.
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