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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 01:06 PM EDT |
The patent's priority date is estimated by Google to be Aug. 7, 1995.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
1. Edison did not invent the light bulb.
2. Edison did not claim that he had invented the light bulb.
3. Edison's patent was not for the "invention" of the light bulb.
Instead of any of the above, Edison's patent was for an *improvement* to the
light bulb, and it says so right in the patent application. What he had
succeeded in doing was making a light bulb which was sufficiently cheap to be
affordable, and sufficiently long lasting (he tested it up to 750 hours of use)
to be actually usable.
In recent years, it seems that we might need to have his standards of quality
brought back again. I have bought lots of light bulbs which went kapoof wnen
first screwed into the socket and turned on. I bet you have, too.
Fortunately, it is improbable that there are any patents on making light bulbs
which are not good for anything but getting them home from the store before they
burn out. Even though there are software patents which really do seem to be that
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 01:28 PM EDT |
Command-line history goes back to the 70s, at least. In the
GUI world, auto-complete suggestions in programs like Word
and Excel were well-established in the 1980s.
Oh, and your history of Edison is all wrong. Look up Joseph
Swan and William Sawyer. I'll give you a head start:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?
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Authored by: rcsteiner on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 04:43 PM EDT |
Command history has a long and glorious history. I have a copy of the source
for CSHELL*CSHELL here, an approximately UNIX-like OS2200 command shell for
DEMAND users developed by a couple of guys in the Unisys EXEC group in Roseville
MN, and I think the latest version was released back in 1992.
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT |
Well, I was using "history" on a VAX 11/780 back in the '80s, IIRC.
How long has it been in Linux/Unix? It's even been in MS-DOS for many years.
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
1998 is the year it was published, not the
year the work was done. I would assume
when the work was done and when the public
had knowledge of it will be coming up
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Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
It's in Japanese, but the title and abstract are in English
Link to the
Japanese PDF A Simple
Approach to Adaptive Text Editors by Toshiyuki Masui from Shoichi Takeuchi
(Eds.), Interactive Systems:... Japan Society for Software Science and
Technology WISS'94, 145-154 modern science company PP, 1994
The
Abstract:
Summary.
We propose a simple adaptive
predictive interface for text editing
tasks. A text editor can predict the next
user input from various information
available, such as the user's repetitive
operations, a dictionary of frequently-
used wors, preveously-input text
strings, etc. Using a text editor with such
a predictive feature, a user can ask
the system to predict his next operation
and select the appropriate one from the
candidates shown by the system. If
the system can also keep track of the user's
selections and know the user's
preferences, it can gradually adapt itself to the
user and show more appropriate
candidates next time. We implemented five
prediction schemes on GNU
Emacs, and also implemented one simple adaptation
scheme for ordering the
prediction schemes. Empirical results show that adaptive
predictive interface
shows higher usability than non-adaptive interface.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 07:29 AM EDT |
Haven't read the patent, but things that come to my mind regarding histories and
selecting from previously entered data:
I was using command line history back in 1986/7 using the c-chell (csh) on Unix
(specifically BSD Suns) [deliberately used csh as sh (bash) did not have command
history, nor proper job control - they seem to have arrived with bash] and an
ADDS Mentor system running Pick - this latter having a command to edit the list
of stored history.
However, neither of these systems proffered suggestions as I was typing [don't
know if this is pertinent]. csh did allow commands to be selected by starting
with specified characters (eg ``!v'' would pick up the most recent command
starting with a v) or containing selected characters (eg ``!?ed'' would find the
most recent command in which the characters "ed" appeared) - there may
be more csh features regarding history and repeating, but those were the two I
most often used.
I wrote a system with an entry history system in 1988-90
A honeywell DPS 6 running Pick (I used from 1991-1994) had a command history
I also wrote a system using MS Access and its COMBO boxes (using a 1994 book as
a reference) to select from a list and that I do remember used to proffer
suggestions from the list as entries were typed - the lists themselves were
filled from previously entered data.
The question is how appropriate are these to the patent? Does the patent
actually have a novel way of doing the actual history or is it just trying to
patent the idea (by being as broad as possible to catch ways of which the
inventors had not thought) and has caught up much prior art (destroying any
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