Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
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Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#2Here's the patent in question, #5,946,647, filed Feb. 1, 1996:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647
"A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data... uses a pattern analysis unit ... to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. .... Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions."
And here's an older article with more description http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/16/apple-vs-google-insid...
"When an iPhone receives a message that contains a phone number or an address -- e-mail, Web or street -- those bits of data are automatically highlighted, underlined and turned into clickable links.
Click on the phone number, and the iPhone asks if you want to dial it. Click on the Web address, and it opens in Safari. Click on the street address, and Maps will display it."
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#3And it goes back, and forth, and back, and forth, and
In other news, "Samsung adds four more complaints to its German patent offensive against Apple":
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/19/2646835/samsung-apple-ger...
I would love for someone at one of these companies to explain how on earth this benefits the consumer.
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#4Here's the patent in question, #5,946,647, filed Feb. 1, 1996: http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647 "A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data... uses a pattern analysis unit ... to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. .... Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected st…
Really? My old featurephone did that!
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#5Here's the patent in question, #5,946,647, filed Feb. 1, 1996: http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647 "A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data... uses a pattern analysis unit ... to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. .... Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected st…
Wasn't explorer in windows 95 (can't remember what 3.X did for context menus) a prior art for first fragment? Right-click "my computer" you get one context menu, right-click ".bat" (see - pattern analysis) you get another, right-click ".doc" ...
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#6And it goes back, and forth, and back, and forth, and In other news, "Samsung adds four more complaints to its German patent offensive against Apple": http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/19/2646835/samsung-apple-ger... I would love for someone at one of these companies to explain how on earth this benefits the consumer.
Why would it need to benefit the consumer? None of these companies operate to directly benefit the consumer.
Note: I agree with your sentiment
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#7Sigh, emotionally this sort of crap from Apple just really irritates me. Sure software patents are stupid, but does it strike anyone else that this Android Jihad by Apple is doing more damage to their corporate brand than help?
I should have realized during the 'look and feel' wars that its part of their DNA.
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#8Here's the patent in question, #5,946,647, filed Feb. 1, 1996: http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647 "A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data... uses a pattern analysis unit ... to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. .... Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected st…
Sometimes, I feel like we're characters in a book of satire, mocking what a world would look like if it acted like ours.
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#9"Greetings, Professor Falken."
"Hello, Joshua."
"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#10And it goes back, and forth, and back, and forth, and In other news, "Samsung adds four more complaints to its German patent offensive against Apple": http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/19/2646835/samsung-apple-ger... I would love for someone at one of these companies to explain how on earth this benefits the consumer.
Why would it need to benefit the consumer? None of these companies operate to directly benefit the consumer. Note: I agree with your sentiment
My knee-jerk, emotional, response is to agree with you because from my perspective: they aren't working to win consumers by building the best product, they either buy-out the technology they want or stomp competing technology with patents. The biggest players cost each other billions hoping to cripple each others ability to compete, or eradicate the competing product altogether.
Yes, we get a phone out of it, but that phone is so we can buy apps, pay providers for service (fine, except we pay out the nose for things that aren't even really necessary like text message plans on smart phones that don't need them), they sell us the device, or the apps, and then track us, monitor us, and sell that information so that they can better target and sell us more stuff.
We're not just the consumer, our habits are a product.
But that's my knee jerk doom and gloom response, something I keep in the back of my mind when I work on more rational reactions.