[citation][nom]frealist[/nom]No, the path is not laid out. This is Microsoft patent trolling at it's finest. I guarantee that they have not worked out the details, they're just pre-emptively patenting an idea that's not exactly new, just in case they manage to work out the remaining details later.In the likely event Google could actually deliver a real product similar to this first, Microsoft will then extort money from handset manufacturers for "patent licensing". What makes it so messed up is that if I were as much of a douchebag as Microsoft, I could go around patenting half baked ideas like this, straight out of science fiction movies. Even though I possess no means or desire to build the first actual product based on this, I could then go around extorting money out of anybody and everybody who actually puts in the hard work to make it real.[/citation]
You post that crap and accuse MSFT of being a Troll? They've already shown a demo of most of this with Omnitouch.
Haters gonna hate, trolls gonna troll.