IBM's Where-in-HQ-is-Samuel-J-Palmisano? Patent
from the patents-at-work dept
theodp writes "The next time IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano is late for a big meeting and can't be reached via his BlackBerry, the other attendees will thankfully have a patent-pending way of finding him. In its just-disclosed patent application for a Method for Exploitation of Location Proximity to Derive a Location of an Employee in a Corporation, Big Blue describes an 'invention' of two of its PhDs that could be used to track Palmisano down - call or IM those who sit near Sam's office and ask if they've seen him. By the way, IBM VP David Kappos, who recently lamented the diminished quality of patents in the US, is a frontrunner to be the next Director of the USPTO - perhaps he could comment on the patent-worthiness of this invention."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Wow
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No need for call forwarding - the system automatically forwarded your call to the handset nearest your [badge's] location.
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No need for call forwarding - the system automatically forwarded your call to the handset nearest your [badge's] location.
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IBM forever
IBM lawyer David Kappos just got nominated by Bab-bam as a next PTO director
Heck, why not nominate Bernie Madoff as a head of SEC ?
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Re: IBM forever
-I trolled with angry dude-
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lol
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Is it April 1st again already?
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Ummm...
April fools??
I have GOT to start submitting some patents. I have crap ideas like this all the time.
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Does prior art in a work of fiction count?
Computer, locate Lt Cmdr Data.
Computer:
Lt Cmdr Data is in his quarters.
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wow...inspired me to come up with two great patentworthy ideas
2. leave a voice mail on his cell phone-exactly 12 seconds to be precise (thats novel, isn't it?)-build a system to automatically extract his phone number from the directory
man, i suddenly feel a heightened sense of intelligence
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Prior art?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/ab.html
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