| It appears to be multiple patents, virtually all obvious and with significant prior art: • 5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames • 5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames • 6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations • 6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer • 6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database • 7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes • 5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior • 6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information • 6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device • Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs; • Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster; • Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content; • Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and • Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-sues... http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2... I really hate software patents and the trolls that abuse them. |
BTW, what is the prior art on the two clearest ones (from the title -- which obviously doesn't mean the claims line up, but I suspect they do):
Meeting requets and group scheduling on a mobile device prior to 1997?
Common namespace for long and short filenames prior to 1993?