"Greetings, Professor Falken." "Hello, Joshua." "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Note to downmoderators: this is a quote from WarGames. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on a foundational piece of geek cinema.
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
#22This feature is largely useless, anyway. An example is, I receive text messages from Amazon when an order ships and is delivered. The "system and method to cause a computer to detect and perform actions" then highlights the tracking number and order number as though they are phone numbers, which it immediately dials when your finger comes nearby. This is very annoying because they are not phone numbers, they are trac…
Tracking numbers have a lot more digits than phone numbers; do they actually get detected as such? I've never seen it happen.
I have, however, found it useful to tap on an address to bring it up in Google Maps or a phone number to open it in the dialer.
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#23And 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.
The pro-IP argument from Apple's point of view goes something like this: In a world where everyone just copies everyone else freely (e.g. the desktop PC world) there is/would be much less innovation. The investments that go into many breakthrough products (iphone, ipad) are made with the understanding that IP protections are in place to prevent copycats from waltzing in and taking all the benefits later on. Take away…
I guess they don't believe in competing on quality, or time to market, or price, or novelty, or any of the traditional methods of standing out in a free market.
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#24Apple == US company
HTC == Taiwan company
Any surprise why the US International Trade Commission bans HTC?
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#25"Greetings, Professor Falken." "Hello, Joshua." "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Note to downmoderators: this is a quote from WarGames. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on a foundational piece of geek cinema.
I think that the fact that it's a cultural reference and, on its own, not an interesting contribution might be why it's getting downmodded, rather than people not getting the reference.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note to downmoderators: this is a quote from WarGames. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on a foundational piece of geek cinema.
I think that the fact that it's a cultural reference and, on its own, not an interesting contribution might be why it's getting downmodded, rather than people not getting the reference.
But I found it an interesting contribution -- it really captured the essence; it seemed a perfect 'tldr'.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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" ...
I don't think so. You aren't acting on the ".bat", you're acting on the file itself. The patented technology has more in common with face detection algorithms than right-click menus.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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" ...
I don't think so. You aren't acting on the ".bat", you're acting on the file itself. The patented technology has more in common with face detection algorithms than right-click menus.
It would seem to have more in common with the way that Microsoft Word autodetects URLs and email address and turns them into clickable links, or the way in which the Skype browser plugin autodetects phone numbers on a web page and makes those into click-to-call-with-Skype links.
Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#29Here'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…
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Re: Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission
#30The Commission found that the HTC devices infringed these two claims of the '647 patent:
1. A computer-based system for detecting structures in data
and performing actions on detected structures, comprising:
an input device for receiving data;
an output device for presenting data;
a memory storing information including program routines
including:
an analyzer server for detecting structures in the
data, and for linking actions to the detected
structures;
a user interface enabling the selection of a detected
structure and a linked action; and
an action processor for performing the selected action
linked to the selected structure; and
a processing unit coupled to the input device, the
output device, and the memory for controlling the
execution of the program routines.
8. The system recited in claim 1, wherein the user
interface highlights detected structures.