Microsoft patents the “Lingtweight”
This week, the US patent office published an application by Microsoft for “Lingtweight”.
What’s a lingtweight?? The new Zune? Vista – the Norwegian Edition?? Code name for IE9??? No.
Lingtweight: What happens when Microsoft patent lawyers think they’re too smart to be using spell checkers. Of course Google knows better. The intended patent is for a “Lightweight reference user interface”. It’s a method using XML to display additional information when a user rolls over certain keywords. This is used to provide additional material without the user having to navigate away from the current page. Of course, it’s not surprising that Microsoft is trying to patent the idea – dozen of versions are available now, including Snap, which we use here at SensoryMetrics.
Tags: Microsoft, Snapshot, spelling-counts
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