Creating a product registration system that holds onto the data entered, periodically looks for a network connection, and, when its found, uploads the registration info.<\/p>\n
Pretty obvious, simple, and ubiquitous, you’d think, right? I mean, don’t all (or at least most) software registration systems do that?<\/p>\n
Guess not, according to the US Patent Office<\/a>, which just gave Micro$oft a patent on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creating a product registration system that holds onto the data entered, periodically looks for a network connection, and, when its found, uploads the registration info. 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