I am pleased to announce that as of February 1st key features to both SyndiClick properties, FindMeOn and RoadSound, are patent pending.
In regards to FindMeOn, a lot of intellectual property is being protected — and a lot isn’t.
First, we should note what is not being covered by current patent applications:
The findmeon spec is now, and always will be, free and open.
FindMeOn is not protecting anything about listing all of your profile identities on a single page, list your RSS feeds etc. Everyone is doing this now, and we neither don’t know who thought of it first , nor care. We’re not looking do to this style of aggregation at all — and see little difference between it and existing social networking sites with a ‘list your accounts here’ box. If you only want that sort of functionality, the best implementation we’ve seen of it has been Claim ID, and we strongly suggest looking there. There are also a ton of new sites every day that kind of do that, and toss on misc bells and whistles , but its all the same and Claim ID shows the most utility by far.
In terms of our current patent applications, we are are seeking protections for: ( please note, this is generalized. Because there’s so much activity in this field right now I don’t want to get into the exact claims until they’re made public by the USPTO ):
How we isolate accounts and identities from one another with privacy
How we syndicate identities and links to other networks via clickable badges ( the webring-ish feature of our badges )
How we handle profile management , permissions, and syndication
How we handle cross-network friendships
a bunch of other stuff that isn’t public yet
The RapidRegister system and developer toolset will be launching within the week, and a host of new user searching tools will as well.
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