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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
why did you use it as justification for a patent on math when it isn't a patent
on math?
Without the math, the patent is nothing but patenting pre-existing patented
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| Authored by: jonathon on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:36 PM EDT |
>This is a new way to use a touchscreen - a way that the inventor claims no
one else discovered.
Going back to those Chicklet keyboards from circa 1985, the only differences
are:
* The keyboard is made of glass rather than plastic;
* It is easier to swipe a glass keyboard on, say, a Samsung Omnia, than it is to
swipe the Chicklet keyboard, and have the correct words be displayed on the
screen.
* The glass keyboard also displays output, whereas the Chicklet keyboard only
handles input;
Circa 1990 I had a mouse on my system. If I ran the right software, and clicked
on the right place on the screen, then a word would be added to the note I was
writing. Not an efficient way to do things, but it was doable. If one had
source code, one could change where the mouse click would be, and the
word/letter to be added.
Combine the swiping action on the Chicklet keyboard, with that virtual keyboard,
except do everything on a touchscreen. The "hard" part is finding the
memory locations for each spot on the touchscreen, and ensuring that the touched
spots are recognized in real time.
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