Twitter Patents Twitter – And Also “Pull to Refresh”
Generally, I don’t let this type of news snag even a fraction of my attention but after doing some research I thought this was too funny not to write about. So here we go. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has received a patent issued by Twitter that describes: a “”Device independent message distribution platform,” listed as invented by Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone (both co-founders of the social service) do note however, the request was filed in 2008.
It basically describes, a way for a message to be sent by various means into a system, without it having to be addressed to anyone specifically, with potential recipients that elect to receive messages from the sender having the update delivered to them.
It is said that this patent, as well as another for the “Pull to refresh” action (which is now almost a ubiquitous standard in UI/UX design) are currently pending, but potentially valuable to the company. It is unlikely Twitter will attach other companies using their patented technology (more likely the latter) mainly because, Twitter has signed an Innovators Patent Agreement that allows for the use of a patent for defensive purposes unless Twitter received permission from the patent inventor(s).
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