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Microsoft is currently suing Apple over the page turn on the iPad's ebook reader. They have a patent on the idea of using a page turning gesture to go to the ne
by iuygtfnh 16y ago
Microsoft is currently suing Apple over the page turn on the iPad's ebook reader.
They have a patent on the idea of using a page turning gesture to go to the next page in a book on a computer, together with the idea of showing a page is turning.
No code, no description of how to render it - just the idea of taking an everyday action (turning over a page) and using it to do the same thing on a computer
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20100175018.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100175018&RS=DN/20100175018 http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...