{"id":109,"date":"2005-07-24T00:20:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/24\/microsoft-patenting-emoticons\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:23:06","slug":"microsoft-patenting-emoticons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/24\/microsoft-patenting-emoticons\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft patenting emoticons!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eh? What? I have a hard time believing what I just read myself, but Microsoft has patented emoticons<\/a> (or well, filed for patent, patent no. 20050156873). More specifically, they’ve patented the method of making a character sequence, such as a colon and a right paranthesis, being “converted” into a graphic, which is recreated at the receiving end. That is, : ) becomes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I can’t believe that this is something people can have the idea of patenting – but I guess this is what happens if you can patent programming methods\/algorithms.<\/p>\n

It’s a crazy world. Or a stupid one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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