James Cook reports a new occurrence of patent sickness in Facebook has an idea for software that detects cool new slang before it goes mainstream.
The most helpful part of James’ post is the graphic outline of the “process” patented by Facebook:
I sure do hope James has not patented that presentation because it make the Facebook patent, err, clear.
Quick show of hands on originality?
While researching this post, I ran across Open Source as Prior Art at the Linux Foundation. Are there other public projects that research and post prior art with regard to particular patents?
An armory of weapons for opposing ill-advised patents.
The Facebook patent is: 9,280,534 Hauser, et al. March 8, 2016, Generating a social glossary:
Its abstract:
Particular embodiments determine that a textual term is not associated with a known meaning. The textual term may be related to one or more users of the social-networking system. A determination is made as to whether the textual term should be added to a glossary. If so, then the textual term is added to the glossary. Information related to one or more textual terms in the glossary is provided to enhance auto-correction, provide predictive text input suggestions, or augment social graph data. Particular embodiments discover new textual terms by mining information, wherein the information was received from one or more users of the social-networking system, was generated for one or more users of the social-networking system, is marked as being associated with one or more users of the social-networking system, or includes an identifier for each of one or more users of the social-networking system. (emphasis in original)