{"id":2391,"date":"2009-11-23T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2009-11-23T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:17:55","slug":"microsoft-patents-and-sparklines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"microsoft patents and sparklines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a <a href=\"http:\/\/sparklines-excel.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/united-states-patent-application.html\">blog of Fabrice Rimlinger<\/a> it was pointed out that a patent claim has been filed by Microsoft for a rather general class of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sparkline\">sparklines.<\/a> Sparklines is a term which was proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Tufte\">Edward Tufte<\/a> in his book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_be\">beautiful evidence<\/a>&#8221; as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&#038;topic_id=1\">(citation from Edward Tufte website)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it seems I have to pay now to Microsoft for talking about<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/11\/sparklineN300.jpg\" alt=\"sparkline\" \/><\/p>\n<p>does anyone know &#8211; do they take regular checks ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a blog of Fabrice Rimlinger it was pointed out that a patent claim has been filed by Microsoft for a rather general class of sparklines. Sparklines is a term which was proposed by Edward Tufte in his book &#8220;beautiful evidence&#8221; as &#8220;Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics&#8221; (citation from Edward Tufte website) So it seems I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}