{"id":11297,"date":"2013-10-06T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2013-10-06T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:32:59","slug":"no-joke-google-wants-a-patent-on-splitting-the-restaurant-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11297","title":{"rendered":"Google wants a patent on splitting the restaurant bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Google Patent Application<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220130262294%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20130262294&amp;RS=DN\/20130262294\">October 2013<\/a>: \u201cFor example, continuing with the example of FIG. 4, assume that Users A-C have drinks at a bar and User B pays a bill of $45 for the drinks. User B adds the payment transaction as an expenditure of the group and allocates $15 of the transaction to User A, $20 to User B, $10 to User C. In this example, the balance module 308 would update the individual balances of Users A-C to indicate that User B now owes $115 to User A ($130-$15) and User C owes $10 to User B ($0+$10).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2013\/joke-google-seeks-patent-splitting-restaurant-bills\/\">No joke: Google wants a patent on splitting the restaurant bill &#8211; GeekWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think one could patent a mathematical formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Patent Application, October 2013: \u201cFor example, continuing with the example of FIG. 4, assume that Users A-C have drinks at a bar and User B pays a bill of $45 for the drinks. User B adds the payment transaction &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[670,423,180,874],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-algorithms","tag-google","tag-math","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11297\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}