Re: Ridiculous
@frank ly
Yeah, lots of prior art. A friend provided a pager set to vibrate to his girlfriend (back when pagers were still thing) to be worn in her knickers, so he could remind her of his thinking of her when both were at work. Their kids are in college now, so I suspect this would be prior art to a sane patent office.
Problems:
1) The USPTO only considers things it can find in its list of filed patents to be "prior art".
2) Apparently this eliminates quite a few things that are obvious to those reasonably skilled in the art.
3) Like you mention. take anything, no matter how common for centuries and add "with a computer" or "over the Internet"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
