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- Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection
- A patent application filed by Apple in February 2008 for multi-touch display screen with localized tactile feedback indicates that the company is researching haptic feedback for possible inclusion in the iPhone and iPod touch. Most telling is a line in the application about the competitive advantages of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Front-facing video camera spotted in Apple patent application
- Front-facing video camera spotted in Apple patent applicationWow, Apple just invented the front-facing video camera!!Cool! I sure wish someone else had thought of putting a front facing video camera in a cell phone but nope, that's never happened before. Congrats Apple for inventing this!!Front?? Back??To quote the article:Is it just...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Front-facing video camera spotted in Apple patent application
- MacRumors unearthed two patent applications filed by Apple in the past couple of weeks that indicate the company is researching motion-aware interfaces for the iPhone. It works like this, the iPhone would be able to detect when you're moving (via GPS or the built-in accelerometers) and adapt...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Apple likes jailbroken iPhones too
- Somebody in Cupertino's in a lot of hot water Monday morning. In fact, they might as well not even show up to work tomorrow. Apparently some genius at Apple submitted a patent application for iPhone biometric security to the USPTO with evidence of jailbreaking all over it....
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Metered computing: Another great argument for open source in 2009
- Metered computing, as outlined by Microsoft in a patent application, isn't the worst idea I've heard -- but it ranks up there with other spectacular failures like the original DivX, AOL dial-up, and the 2008 Detroit Lions. The idea, as outlined in this article by David Meyer,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- PatentWizard Basic 3.0.11 (Windows)
- PatentWizard is a patent writing software program that assists inventors and patent attorneys to write provisional patent applications. PatentWizard Professional allows individuals to prepare an unlimited number of provisional patent applications. Exclusive PatentCheckerTM Technology automatically verifies the provisional patent application to catch common mistakes made by self-drafters. Real time spell...
- Software downloads 2008-12-03
- Apple patent application for RF module
- Apple patent application for RF moduleMini cloud computingI was just thinking about cloud computing in a micro-setting. Right now PCs are the all-in one machines. That's what makes them problematic in many ways (at least from my perspective as an independent computer consultant who does a lot of "help desk"...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Apple patent application for RF module
- A recent patent application filed by Apple describes its vision for a new Personal Area Network PAN that would link RF modules in everything from clothes to accessories which would communicate with each other and connect to the Internet. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- PatentWrangler 2.21 (Windows)
- PatentWrangler is for individuals needing quick access to United States patents and published patent applications from the USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office and PCT applications from the European Patent Office. It's a solution that enables you to conveniently download USPTO patents and patent applications into pdfs at home,...
- Software downloads 2008-10-23
- Doing the Microsoft patent math
- Just over a year ago, Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents -- but refused and continue to refuse to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there's a new piece of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent application
- Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent applicationthey used to have one...i hadn't realized it was gone. i used it a few times they had really nicely designed cards not the cheese ball stuff from most other services....maybe they are thinking of restarting it?It's still there....
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Gpay: Send money to people with SMS?
- Paying for things with your cell phone isn't a new concept, but as with most things, it seems to get more interesting when Google does something with it. A patent filed by the search engine outlines a system for distributing money through SMS. How will it...
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program
- I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Image 2 (Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application)
- Image 2 (Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application)oh hey.. another obvious patent.. throw it out please.thanksAll patents must die [nt].I wish there were a control device based upon using.......my FEET. Then I could use both my hands for more useful things, like holding my cup of coffee and my smoke.Huh?A...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
- Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application
- Images from Apple's double-sided fullscreen/touchpanel patent application
- Image galleries 2007-05-11
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhone
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhoneMore specific...."Can you imagine an iPhone with GSM, FM, Bluetooth and WiFi built-in?"- is this a reference to poor batteries in ipod devices or a wrong comment in light of devices such as the M3100 orange TYTN which does all of the above (minus the...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Patent application reveals much about iPod/iPhone
- Yesterday I posted a note about Apples United States Patent Application #20060268528 for a "handheld computing device includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a ceramic material that is radio-transparent." The details of the patent (USPTO, text, PDF) are extremely revealing about where Apple is headed with the future...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- EXCLUSIVE: New Apple Patent art I show you here may point to iPod with camera
- Although Apple takes pains for illustrations in a U.S. Patent Application published on Thursday to be regarded as only "exemplary" of a multiple-function multimedia device activated by touch-screen "bezel" technology.Yet, since so much space in the Application is devoted to ways that such systems as digital photography and music can...
- Blog posts 2006-10-29
- Are Maps mashups patentable?
- Someone asked me today whether they could file a patent application concerning their Google Maps mashup. Not being a patent lawyer, I haven't the foggiest, but it's an interesting question. I don't see anything in the API Terms that would specifically preclude patenting a maps app. (Commercial...
- Blog posts 2006-09-02
- Amazon prepares for online taxes
- Amazon prepares for online taxesThe day I pay taxes online......The day I pay taxes online is the day I stop shopping online.Benjamin Franklin said:"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"Famous quote by Benjamin Franklin, one of the forefathers of the United States... which broke away from the...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
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