trillianjedi - 2:24 pm on Nov 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Tom - the Ingenio patent is for something completely different. It's a pay-per-call patent (relates to technology that tracks and times dialled 0800 numbers etc).

It's nothing to do with click-to-call. In fact, there is no "click" involved.

Almost positive this process isn't patented and is unlikely to be?

Probably not due to prior disclosure and common use.

The "callto://" tag has been present in IE for years.

Also, nobody sued Skype yet, and they've been doing it for 18 months.

TJ