{"id":119584,"date":"2009-12-31T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/0957277551.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T14:19:02","slug":"omg-ibm-patented-lol-rotflmao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119584","title":{"rendered":"OMG! IBM Patented LOL! ROTFLMAO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>theodp<\/b> writes <i>&#8220;The USPTO has granted IBM a patent covering the <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,640,233\">Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an Electronic Communications System<\/a>, lawyer-speak for <a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4225941130_c68b39924a_o.jpg\">translating &#8220;IMHO&#8221; to &#8220;In My Humble Opinion&#8221;<\/a> and vice versa. From the patent: &#8220;One particularly useful application of the invention is to interpret the meaning of shorthand terms&#8230;For example, one database may define the shorthand term &#8216;LOL&#8217; to mean &#8216;laughing out loud.'&#8221; So much for Big Blue&#8217;s professed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/soa\/IBM-calls-for-patent-reform\/0,139023165,139187609,00.htm\">aim of stopping &#8220;bad behavior&#8221; by companies who seek patents for unoriginal work<\/a>!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/0957277551.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091230\/0957277551.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091230\/0957277551&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=b8f577910704783af935e572398f2bcf&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=b8f577910704783af935e572398f2bcf&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2yiHlm1TDaU:5LU0dJwB080:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=2yiHlm1TDaU:5LU0dJwB080:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2yiHlm1TDaU:5LU0dJwB080:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/2yiHlm1TDaU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theodp writes &#8220;The USPTO has granted IBM a patent covering the Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an Electronic Communications System, lawyer-speak for translating &#8220;IMHO&#8221; to &#8220;In My Humble Opinion&#8221; and vice versa. From the patent: &#8220;One particularly useful application of the invention is to interpret the meaning of shorthand terms&#8230;For example, one database may define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}