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Originally posted by SMG
That's worse than activebuddy's patent on chat bots!
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I haven't looked into those issues, but claiming downloading of audio/video is so much broader and more impact in scope than a chat bot.
i am sure some prior art could be dug up if you really looked. i was using some Visual Basic code that i found for making an AIM bot.. just about the time when activebuddy.com came online.. i wouldn't be prior art, but whoever made the base code could be , plus other coders could say they did it first (if publicized).