Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages 167
theodp writes "Among the patents awarded to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday was one for his invention of Error Processing Methods for Providing Responsive Content to a User When a Page Load Error Occurs, which covers displaying alternate web pages in response to HTTP 404 page-not-found errors. So is this the technology that causes Amazon's Home Page to be displayed when Bezos' MIA Patent Reform Page can't be found?"
The Plan (Score:5, Funny)
And by the way, what constitutes "customized" when its open source software?
404'd! (Score:5, Funny)
ErrorDocument 404 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not prior art (Score:5, Funny)
Patents (Score:3, Funny)
It's like the loophole I found when I was in Game a few months ago:
"£9.99 please"
"But it says it's half price"
"No, it's only half price when bought with something else"
"Oh... so if I buy two of these then I get them both for less than the price of just one of them?"
(Realising the problem) "...yeah... yeah you would actually"
"OK, I'll be back in a minute"
Re:Not prior art (Score:4, Funny)
I have an idea for a patent! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:prior art? (Score:3, Funny)
The requested patent is totally fake.
No patent here.
Even tried multi.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server...
-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,
trying to serve you a simple patent,
and then it doesn't even exist!
Where does that leave me?!
Re:Not prior art (Score:4, Funny)
Error Displaying Error Message, of course...
Drat, can't find the pic I wanted...
Re:How stupid can the patent office be.. (Score:5, Funny)
They should use Comcast, then. That should slow the torrents down a bit...
*cower (Rank 8)*
Re:RTFA you tards (Score:2, Funny)
Wheel patented in Australia (Score:5, Funny)
John Keogh was issued the innovation patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" under a patent system introduced in May 2001.
(read the rest...) [newscientist.com]
- Jesper
Re:Not prior art (Score:4, Funny)
Custom errors (Score:2, Funny)
Re:404'd! (Score:2, Funny)
Any strongbad related post deserves +6 awesomeness!
Re:Not prior art (Score:4, Funny)
The most probable error message would be something in the spirit of "You just transfered huge amounts of data on your non-flatrate account. Your account has been suspended."
Re:Not prior art (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Old news (Score:2, Funny)
You'd think so, but I have a patent on the idea and I'm just waiting someone to infringe on it.