The microserf that uses the moniker Paul Allen has had his pet patent troll file a lawsuit about his non-patents. (How much did Paul Allen bribe the USPTO to award those patents? There is no way that they could have been otherwise awarded, because they are so obvious.)
Those patents:
- No. 6,263,507, "Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented By Audiovisual Data."
- No. 6,034,652, "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- No. 6,788,314, "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- No. 6,757,682, "Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest."
