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The present invention provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different techniques. Using a plurality of heuristic algorithms to operate upon information descriptors input by the user, the present invention locates and displays candidate items of information for selection and/or retrieval. Thus, the advantages of a search engine can be exploited, while listing only relevant object candidate items of information.

they basically tried to patent thinking. There goes any chance of robots

Thing is, if you squint just right their patent application resembles what happens when a teacher asks his students to do research. Thinking and learning as it's done by humans. So they've patented basic human thought.

First they win against Samsung, setting a precedent, then they take every man, woman and child in America to court. After all, Americans are so special that they can afford to pay a company for the privilege to think.