Herein lies the big problem with software patents: patents are supposed to cover inventions, but with software they cover ideas. A completely different implementation in code could still infringe a sufficiently vague software patent.
Does anyone have any legal knowledge on what this means for software products like Windows Media Center?
> In June, the patent office ruled in a separate case that TiVo's patent claims for its "time-warp" DVR technology were invalid.