![]() ![]() Here you outline a more specific embodiment of the invention that is to include all the general features covered by the claims. The patent also includes a section where you describe the “invention” in more detail. Claims, despite this lack of detail and extreme broadness, are what officially define the “invention”. ![]() Claims are very broad descriptions with almost no detail of an actual (software) product. Claims are what determine if someone else infringes on the patent (“invention”). The patent application includes these things called claims. Anyone know which patent application it is? You might infringe on Domino’s possible patent.Īs for the patent application itself, I’ve been looking around for it and haven’t turned up anything. As for the complaints, apparently there’s a bit of a “glitch” with this amazing patent pending technology, such that if someone at the store “clears” an order, the system interprets that as “baked and ready,” since, despite all the brilliance going into this patent-pending technology, no one thought to add a feature that tells the customer something’s wrong with the order.īut, of course, you shouldn’t build that yourself. They just assume the pizza was delivered 10 minutes after it leaves the store (which I would imagine might lead to angry customers who live further away, or if there’s a bad traffic jam or something). He later explains that the only part that is “faked” is the delivery time. Every update customers see on the Tracker except for the final ‘delivered’ update, McIntyre said knowingly, is triggered by a button press in the store itself. “The Pizza Tracker is real, and it is accurate to within 30 seconds,” McIntyre told The Daily Caller just seconds after we indicated to customer service that we were investigating the veracity of the Pizza Tracker’s sometimes extraordinary claims. Tim McIntyre, the vice president of communications at Domino’s, insisted that his company had not patented bullshit. There’s also the patent on sending signals faster than the speed of light. Well, there have been patents on anti-gravity devices, even though they’re not supposed to grant patents that, you know, violate the laws of physics - so perhaps that answers the question there. Is that really patent pending technology? I didn’t know you could patent bull*&%t That guy notes, of the patent application: The “evidence” against it being real is that one anonymous commenter on a blog post about the tracker said that it told him his pizza was in the oven and then boxed before he discovered a series of voicemails from the store claiming they could not fulfill his online order because they were “out of deep dish.” The second example comes from a guy who just ordered some bottles of soda (no pizza) and was somewhat amused/horrified to watch as his order was “placed in the oven” and then boxed - only to be delivered two hours later (a bit late) after someone called him asking him if he had ordered something from Domino’s, and if so, what it was. Domino’s was quite proud of the fact it had filed a patent for the technology, but there have been some concerns about whether the technology is real, or if it’s just a pretty flash animation connected to nothing in reality. Launched a little over two years ago, apparently, if you order a pizza from Domino’s online, it takes you to a website where it alerts you in real-time to the status of your pizza: is it in the oven, has it been put in a box, is it on its way, etc. Jeff Nolan points us to an amusing article trying to dig into some questions over whether or not Domino’s “patent pending” pizza tracker is real. ![]()
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