{"id":9060,"date":"2006-07-09T22:55:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T22:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2006-07-09T22:55:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T22:55:48","slug":"clue-by-four-misses-patent-office-noggins-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Clue By Four Misses Patent Office Noggins Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those impetuous scamps at the US Patent Office have done it again, awarding Friendster a patent on social networking methods. From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Friendster_Gets_Social_Network_Patent\/1152291067\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> on Beta News: <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Called &#8216;A System, Method and Apparatus for Connecting Users in an Online Computer System Based on Their Relationships within Social Networks,&#8217; the patent seems to give the site the rights to methods used to describe degrees of separation between users.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;According to Friendster, the patent covers methods to calculate and display this separation, as well as providing a way for the user to act upon it. It claims that the invention spurred the uptick now occurring in the social networking industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Does this make &#8220;Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon&#8221; prior art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those impetuous scamps at the US Patent Office have done it again, awarding Friendster a patent on social networking methods. From a piece on Beta News: &#8220;Called &#8216;A System, Method and Apparatus for Connecting Users in an Online Computer System Based on Their Relationships within Social Networks,&#8217; the patent seems to give the site the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clue By Four Misses Patent Office Noggins Once Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}