Re: MS has two patents on "Taskbar with start menu"

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

James Ramsey wrote:
> 
> I found these at Delphion:
> 
> http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05757371__
> > http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05920316__
> 
> Delphion's mostly subscription-based now, so I
> couldn't get much more info than the abstract 

You can get the full text/images from the US patent office's own website
(apols for the long URLs):

http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=taskbar.TTL.&s2='start+menu'.TTL.&OS=TTL/taskbar+AND+TTL/"start+menu"&RS=TTL/taskbar+AND+TTL/"start+menu"

http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=taskbar.TTL.&s2='start+menu'.TTL.&OS=TTL/taskbar+AND+TTL/"start+menu"&RS=TTL/taskbar+AND+TTL/"start+menu"

Cheeri,
Calum.

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