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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 05:59 PM EDT
Inventors: Bell; Michael (Cupertino, CA), Lovich; Vitali (Toronto, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Appl. No.: 12/215,592
Filed: June 26, 2008

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