Another new troublesome patent
 

I wonder if the people in the patent office know the trouble they are causing. Gateway has been awarded a patent for "maintaining individual user preferences on a computer'

Wonder who will be paying royalities for this one.


United States Patent 6,530,083
Liebenow March 4, 2003

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System for personalized settings


Abstract
A method and system for adjusting the settings of an information handling system based on the individual user preferences of one or more users is disclosed. An individual user preference profile is retrieved for each identified user of the information handling system. A combined user preference profile is negotiated based on the individual user preference profiles retrieved for each identified user. The settings are then adjusting based on the combined user preference profile. A user interface identifies users of the information handling system. A system controller retrieves an individual user preference profile for each identified user, negotiates a combined user preference profile based on the individual user preference profiles retrieved for each identified user, and adjusts the settings of the information handling system based on the combined user preference profile.


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Inventors: Liebenow; Frank (Dakota Dunes, SD)
Assignee: Gateway, Inc (Poway, CA)
Appl. No.: 100635
Filed: June 19, 1998

The queston is, did anyone in the patent office understand this.

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