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Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text

• work_account_2 13y ago
  Well, the patent doesn't help anyone but Apple, actually.
• mbrameld 13y ago
  I'm almost 100% sure a guy I know from another web site wrote an iPhone app that did this shortly after the iPhone was first released.
• djpowell 13y ago
  A bit like this from 2011? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporateapps.walktext https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporat...
• cordite 13y ago
  I'm sure there's plenty of prior art--but the PTO wouldn't know that.
• matthewdavis 13y ago
  I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n-walk.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -