Yahoo Photos launched in 2000 - even if it was filed in 2008 that's ridiculous

It's likely that Yahoo Photos in 2000 did not do it --== Wirelessly ==-- (imagine Spongebob rainbow meme https://imgflip.com/i/6e8qvo there) and thus wouldn't be prior art.

"Do a common thing, but wirelessly", is the same level of worthless patent as the old "do a thing, but on a computer/the internet" of the 1990s.

I get that the wireless tech itself is patented, but using it for existing applications should not be patentable.

Easy solution would be to reject inventions that narrow down their claim in a way that crosses two layers in the OSI stack. That would instantly kill all claims of doing X…on a computer, or doing X…wirelessly.

Another way to put it is that integration should not be patentable. Everybody knows images can be serialized to a bitstream and that bitstreams can be sent wirelessly, each on their own is novel, but combining them no. Otherwise I could patent delivery of pepperoni pizza on a electric scooter, even if someone else patented pizzas and scooters already.

> Filed: 2017

It's an extension of this (granted) patent which was filed in 2008:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/8204437