Comment Re:I'd like to know (Score 1) 392
The one - is obvious after you see it - but it's patentable. The next is trivial to any programmer - an array - but labeled with an analogy that gets copied. The third is not a device; you can't see it or determine how it works. Or do you mean, if I may digress...the shopping cart is so inappropriate because is is a catalog order - but an indicia of patentability is if, once invented it is imitated. Now, imitation is the sincerest form of television, and that is what you have there. What you also need for patentability is a device and a description, a patent application, that tells enough for a practitioner in the art to make the device and make it perform as claimed. So what about these software patents combined with layers of digital secrecy that the owner wants to have you jailed for decrypting and decompiling? Just as with the patent holding company, greed manipulating the system and making everyone's life worse.
Next might come a device for automatically buying patents, or clandestinely spying a la the RIAA to see who is downloading them so they can be sued.