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Can someone ELI5 what this the RPI patent (US9936086B2) even tried to patent? Their claims look like the description of just any digital camera and a connected

• asciimov 4y ago
  I'm not a Lawyer. It looks like it was trying to cover the idea of sharing pictures between devices. Not the process of doing said sharing, but the idea.
• ww520 4y ago
  The claims basically say the system is a device with wireless input and wireless output (think a computer with WiFi in/out connections). The device receives a bunch of photos from the wireless input, filters the photo based on some criteria, and sends the filtered resulting photos to another mobile devices via the wireless output. Shotwell's feature kind of fits the description is that it downloads photos from a WiFi connection, organizes the photos by theme/date/etc (filtering), and shares the photos to FB/Twitter/etc (sending via WiFi). Basically any network connected photo editing/organizing software is in dangerous. The patent obviously lacks innovation and slipped through the approval process. The court agreed and invalidated the patent.
  • danamit 4y ago
    Why patents seem to thrive in some countries more than others?