Un artículo de Alexander Wolfe en EmbeddedWatch.com informa que, al parecer, el 27 de mayo, Microsoft obtuvo la patente numero 6,571,390 de la United States Patent and Trademark Office por su invento (¡ejem!) titulado "Interactive entertainment network system and method for customizing operation thereof according to viewer preferences."
Dan Gilmore sentencia: "The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is out of control. This is definitive proof."