Microsoft granted patent for double-click

2 Jun, 2004 at 8:36pm ET Article published in Tech

Microsoft has been granted a patent on the double-click by the US Patents and Trademark Office. Clearly a very important move for the software giant… not.

An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.” The inventors have been cited as Charlton E. Lui and Jeffrey R. Blum and the assignee is Microsoft Corporation. The field of the invention “relates generally to computer systems, and more particularly to increasing the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device”, the patent application says.

Source: SMH

Comments

2 Jun 2004 ~ 8:56pm KingFish How absurd.

KF
2 Jun 2004 ~ 9:17pm entropy hey, at least they don't claim to have invented the internet
2 Jun 2004 ~ 11:41pm qparadox Prior art anyone? I seem to remember clicking multiple times on many apple applications .. .but maybe that's just because the classic macs were so damned slow.
2 Jun 2004 ~ 11:43pm Thrax I believe it's time to invoke these smilies!