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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 11:40 PM EDT |
Hmmm, I can think of a few:
- Power, Volume Up, Volume Down key combinations
- Tap sequence (numeric entry)
- Tap on random moving 'hot-spot'
- Shake / tilt / turn / twist
- Facial recognition
- Voice command
This is going to be Apple's big problem - technology moves
with innovation. Apple could well find that in five years
time, there are thousands of patents (utility and design)
owned by it's competitors. All these patents will make the
competing products have the 'cool' factor. These will
effectively corner the iPhone and iPad into a prehistoric
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 01:08 AM EDT |
The only way to unlock they don't claim is
tapping.
As a point is a zero length line, so a tap is a zero
length slide - mathematically speaking: it would be interesting if Apple claimed
this as it proves that math has been [illegally] patented!
I have a slight
problem with tapping - when I use the GPS feature of my phone as a satnav, to
get the zoom in/out buttons on the screen a tap is required; in the process of
doing this tap I often slightly slide meaning that the stanav application no
longer tracks my position by holds the map still. At what point does a tap
become a slide?
Tapping out a password on a virtual keyboard would
presumably be allowed as not infringing, but what if Swype(P) was
used to enter the password - sliding round the keyboard to enter the
letters - instead of tapping, does it now come under Apple's
patent?
(P) is used to indicated patented technology (sic).
Swype(P) is not owned by Apple? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: N_au on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 02:08 AM EDT |
You don't need tap, to unlock a phone in your pocket. Mine has slide to unlock
and it did weird things in my pocket. It was able to turn itself off and then
turn itself back on, because when I took it out it was waiting for the simm
password. Since I put in a small rag bag now and put it in my shirt pocket where
it can't turn itself over etc, I have had no more problems.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
Every laptop I've had before 2007 had a latch which slides to
unlock/open. The latch is equivalent to the image in the
touch screen. If you don't move the latch always to the end,
the laptop won't unlock/open. Even earlier Microsoft pc
tablets had this latching mechanism.
One is implemented in hardware & other is in software.
Is this not prior art?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 03:05 PM EDT |
Huawei's newer ics models have a lock that appears in the center
of the screen, with no indication how to unlock it. When it is touched,
icons appear at the quadrant points allowing it to be unlocked directly
to phone, email, camera, or the standard home screen. Forums ran
hot for a while with kiddies desperate to get back their simple one
shot slider.
Do the pattern slider screen locks also "infringe"?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 03:09 PM EDT |
Just that tapping brings to mind the song
Knock Three Times lyrics
Really, exactly how can you slide across
the screen
without doing a tap (press but no release)?
Also, I would
think that tapping faster across a region than
the device can registry would be
considered by the device as
a swipe. So my swipe is just a really super quick
set of
taps...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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