There seems to be quite a number of new but old ideas...
Freedom Wireless collects prepaid patent
By Ben Charny Special to CNET News.com May 23, 2001, 1:45 p.m.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6020153.html?tag=mn_hd
"Freedom Wireless said Wednesday that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
granted the company a patent for its technology that allows prepaid wireless
phone users to add money to their wireless phone accounts. Without this
ability, customers would have to open a new account and potentially be
forced to reactivate their handset with a new phone number.
(...)
Boston Communications Group also recently disclosed that it had posted a
$60,000 reward for any information debunking the patents given to Freedom
Wireless, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. "
I wonder if these patents cover the systems for prepaid in Europe or in
Japan (ie. buy a card, insert it/call and input a code, etc...) !
Vincent J. Luna, Director
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on 01.5.22 10:51 PM, Mika Tuupola at tuupola@appelsiini.net wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Phillip Zadarnowski wrote:
>
>> Patents pending
>> Bango.net's innovative services and its specially developed systems and
>> technology are the subject of a number of patents under application. Any
>> party wishing to copy, derive or develop similar services is advised to
>> contact Bango.net in advance of so doing, to ensure non-infingement of
>> Bango.net's intellectual property or to discuss a license to use
>> Bango.net's services and technology.
>
> <sarcasm>
>
> This Internet thingy which some of you might have heard before
> also have this nifty capability of accessing web sites by using
> number. Like, http://www.appelsiini.net/ translates to
>
> http://193.65.127.17/
>
> and even
>
> http://3242295057/
>
> Now wonder if this Internet thingy violates any intellectual
> property rights of Bango?
>
> </sarcasm>
>
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> Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/‾tuupola/
>
>
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Received on Thu May 24 01:16:19 2001