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This seems to be a list: - 5,946,647: System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data - 8,046,721: Unlocking a device by
by sinaa 12y ago
This seems to be a list:
- 5,946,647: System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data
- 8,046,721: Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image (slide to unlock)
- 6,847,959: universal search
- 8,074,172: Method, system, and graphical user interface for providing word recommendations (word recommendation/autocomplete)
- 7,761,414: Background sync
More details here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/05/apple-wins-119-million-in-patent.html http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/05/apple-wins-119-million-in...
- nolok 12y agoI know patents are often much more detailed and precise than what their titles may sound like, but that is one crappy list of patents. "universal search", "background sync", beeeuah.
- malandrew 12y agoI sometimes wonder if naming patterns in an intentionally vague way is a strategy to hide them in plain site. There should be some rule that titles should be sufficiently specific.
- nitrogen 12y agoOut of curiosity, do you use speech to text to compose your HN posts? I'm wondering how "patent" became "pattern" in your first sentence.
- malandrew 12y agoNo. Either my brain moves faster than my hands or I have something else on my mind while typing and I type another similar word by accident. Don't really know. TBH this only started happening in my writing after I lived abroad for four years and was speaking English infrequently. Even now that I'm back in the US speaking English all the time it happens. I occasionally do it in speech as well.