Patent 6,973,669 was approved for Microsoft to pause TV programmi...
Patent 6,973,669 was approved for Microsoft to pause TV programming in response to clicking on a hypertext link, said the Patent & Trademark Office (PTO). “It’s a software patent on an idea so obvious that most people wouldn’t even…
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bother thinking about it. If you're going to include an interactive functionality within a video where someone would click on something, of course you'd want to pause the video playback when someone clicked,” said Rick Nydegger, chmn. of the PTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee.