Microsoft patents "page up" and "page down"
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Microsoft this month was awarded a patent for--get this--the Page Up and Page Down keys that have graced PC keyboards since, well, there were PC keyboards. Well, to be fair, they didn't really patent the keys; they patented the process of paging up and paging down. According to the software giant's application, which was filed way back in 2005, the patent is for "a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed." They should patent the space bar next. I hear that's a big deal in word processing too.