john_k - 2:25 pm on Apr 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

The heart of the patent is that they will be very thorough, and very good at determining what the person says, no matter what the language.

Their description of how this is done boils down to "we will apply very advanced methods and algorithms to figure it all out."

They don't actually introduce anything new.

It makes me seriously wonder how much stock the Primary Patent Examiner has in Google, Inc.