igoeIP Apple Patent Blog: October 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011

2011-10-27 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

	PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110265157	ONE STEP SECURITY SYSTEM IN A NETWORK STORAGE SYSTEM
2	20110265003	PUSHING A USER INTERFACE TO A REMOTE DEVICE
3	20110264732	Network Media Device
4	20110264623	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING GLOBAL EQUIVALENCY SETS TO IDENTIFY DATA DURING PEER-TO-PEER SYNCHRONIZATION
5	20110264495	AGGREGATION OF TAGGED MEDIA ITEM INFORMATION
6	20110262040	ARCHITECTURE FOR EXPORTING DIGITAL IMAGES
7	20110261618	Off-Die Charge Pump that Supplies Multiple Flash Devices
8	20110261530	COMPONENT RETENTION MECHANISM
9	20110261213	REAL TIME VIDEO PROCESS CONTROL USING GESTURES
10	20110261079	AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF A USER INTERFACE COMPOSITION
11	20110259636	STIFFENING PLATE FOR CIRCUIT BOARD AND SWITCH ASSEMBLY
12	20110259176	MUSICAL INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Apple Reports Nortel Patent Purchase in 10-K

Apple filed its 10-K today and reported its role in the acquisition of the Nortel patent portfolio:

During 2011, the Company, as part of a consortium, acquired Nortel Networks Corporation’s patent portfolio for an overall purchase price of $4.5 billion, of which the Company’s contribution was approximately $2.6 billion. The majority of the acquisition price has been recorded in acquired intangible assets, which the Company expects to amortize over seven years. The Department of Justice is reviewing this transaction.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

2011-10-25 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	8,046,721	Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image
2	8,046,689	Media presentation with supplementary media
3	8,046,498	Data synchronization protocol
4	8,046,397	Computations of power functions using polynomial approximations
5	8,046,369	Media asset rating system
6	8,045,708	Discrete key generation method and apparatus
7	8,045,472	Credit management when resource granularity is larger than credit granularity
8	8,044,963	System for emulating graphics operations
9	8,044,961	Automatic synthesis of font tables for character layout
10	8,044,930	Light sensitive display
11	8,044,873	Antennas with periodic shunt inductors
12	8,044,795	Event recorder for portable media device
13	8,044,314	Hybrid button

Thursday, October 20, 2011

2011-10-20 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

	PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110258675	SYNCHRONIZED TRANSMISSION OF AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA FROM A COMPUTER TO A CLIENT VIA AN INTERFACE
2	20110258649	DISC MOUNTING IN OPTICAL DISC DRIVES
3	20110258643	MOUNTING OBJECTS ON A TURNTABLE
4	20110258604	Collapsible Stack Trace
5	20110258426	BOOTING AND CONFIGURING A SUBSYSTEM SECURELY FROM NON-LOCAL STORAGE
6	20110258254	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING AND SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATION BETWEEN A CLIENT AND A SERVER
7	20110256863	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS RADIO FREQUENCY TEST SIGNAL GENERATION
8	20110256779	PLUG ASSEMBLY WITH CORE STRUCTURAL MEMBER
9	20110256465	REDUCED-WEIGHT FUEL CELL PLATE
10	20110256463	PARALLEL FUEL CELL STACK ARCHITECTURE
11	20110255827	CONNECTORS AND CABLES WITH AN OPTICAL TRANSMITTER
12	20110255700	Detecting Musical Structures
13	20110255687	DATA TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM USING CYCLIC GROUPS
14	20110255289	ILLUMINABLE LATCH
15	20110255252	COMPACT EJECTABLE COMPONENT ASSEMBLIES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES
16	20110255218	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COVER ASSEMBLY RETENTION OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE
17	20110254511	PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE POWER MANAGER WITH CURRENT LIMIT FEEDBACK CONTROL LOOP MODIFICATION FOR STABILIZING AN EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLY
18	20110254464	PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (PWM) CLOSED LOOP LED CURRENT DRIVER IN AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

2011-10-18 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	D647,107	Housing for an electronic device
2	D647,106	Display module for an electronic device
3	D647,080	Docking station
4	8,041,981	Synchronizing timing domains based on state variables
5	8,041,968	Power management for driving display with baseband portion when application portion is in low power mode
6	8,041,848	Media processing method and device
7	8,041,755	Fast static rotator/shifter with non two's complemented decode and fast mask generation
8	8,041,438	Data-driven media management within an electronic device
9	8,041,300	Adapter
10	8,041,291	Delivering content to mobile electronic communications devices
11	8,041,186	Propagating metadata associated with digital video
12	8,041,126	Intelligent document scanning
13	8,040,689	Support tabs for protecting a circuit board from applied forces
14	8,040,465	External light illumination of display screens
15	8,040,360	Methods of manipulating a screen space of a display device
16	8,040,359	System for emulating graphics operations
17	8,040,353	System for emulating graphics operations
18	8,040,326	Integrated in-plane switching display and touch sensor
19	8,040,319	Modifying a value based on a user's directional motions independent of cursor position
20	8,039,360	Method of assembling integrated circuit components

Thursday, October 13, 2011

2011-10-13 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110252430	Opportunistic Multitasking
2	20110252429	Opportunistic Multitasking
3	20110252423	Opportunistic Multitasking
4	20110252422	Opportunistic Multitasking
5	20110252344	PERSONALIZING COLORS OF USER INTERFACES
6	20110252318	CONTEXT SENSITIVE REMOTE DEVICE
7	20110252243	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT PROTECTION BASED ON A COMBINATION OF A USER PIN AND A DEVICE SPECIFIC IDENTIFIER
8	20110252236	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING ENCRYPTED DATA ON A DEVICE HAVING FILE-LEVEL CONTENT PROTECTION
9	20110252234	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILE-LEVEL DATA PROTECTION
10	20110252233	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BACKING UP AND RESTORING FILES ENCRYPTED WITH FILE-LEVEL CONTENT PROTECTION
11	20110252232	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIPING ENCRYPTED DATA ON A DEVICE HAVING FILE-LEVEL CONTENT PROTECTION
12	20110252200	COHERENT MEMORY SCHEME FOR HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSORS
13	20110252180	MEMORY CONTROLLER MAPPING ON-THE-FLY
14	20110252057	JOURNALING ON MOBILE DEVICES
15	20110250903	Selective Location Determination
16	20110250840	AUTOMATIC POWER-OFF OF BLUETOOTH DEVICE FROM LINKED DEVICE
17	20110250786	EXTENSIBLE MEMORY CARD-COMPATIBLE RECEPTACLE AND PORT EXPANSION DEVICE
18	20110250785	AUTO-SWITCHING AUDIO SIGNAL CONNECTOR
19	20110250768	HIGH-SPEED MEMORY CONNECTOR
20	20110250388	SIDE CURED LIGHT-TRANSMISSIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM
21	20110249961	Dynamic Exposure Metering Based on Face Detection
22	20110249902	Tracking Workflow in Manipulating Media Items
23	20110249756	Skin Tone and Feature Detection for Video Conferencing Compression
24	20110249742	COUPLED VIDEO PRE-PROCESSOR AND CODEC INCLUDING REFERENCE PICTURE FILTER THAT MINIMIZES CODING EXPENSE DURING PRE-PROCESSING MODE TRANSITIONS
25	20110249729	ERROR RESILIENT HIERARCHICAL LONG TERM REFERENCE FRAMES
26	20110249668	Opportunistic Multitasking
27	20110249471	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACHIEVING ZERO AC-DRAW MODE FOR A DEVICE
28	20110249144	Tagging Images in a Mobile Communications Device Using a Contacts List
29	20110249142	Face Detection Using Orientation Sensor Data
30	20110249133	COMPRESSION-QUALITY DRIVEN IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM
31	20110248992	AVATAR EDITING ENVIRONMENT
32	20110248986	INTELLIGENT MEDIA DECODING
33	20110247926	INTERNAL VENTING DOME SWITCH
34	20110247480	POLYPHONIC NOTE DETECTION
35	20110247479	CHORD TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

2011-10-11 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	8,037,401	Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server
2	8,037,220	Techniques for providing audio for synchronized playback by multiple devices
3	8,037,132	Methods and apparatuses for transferring streaming multimedia data and various types of data associated therewith in a network environment
4	8,037,021	Calendaring techniques and interfaces
5	8,036,894	Multi-unit approach to text-to-speech synthesis
6	8,036,851	Activity monitoring systems and methods
7	8,036,766	Intelligent audio mixing among media playback and at least one other non-playback application
8	8,036,689	Method and apparatus for distributing messages to mobile recipients
9	8,036,378	System and method of authentication
10	8,036,267	Rate control for video coder employing adaptive linear regression bits modeling
11	8,036,061	Integrated circuit with multiported memory supercell and data path switching circuitry
12	8,035,666	Dynamic backlight adaptation for black bars with subtitles
13	8,035,622	SAR ADC with dynamic input scaling and offset adjustment
14	8,035,481	Illuminable latch
15	8,033,695	Active enclosure for computing device

Thursday, October 6, 2011

2011-10-06 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

	PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110246996	DYNAMIC PRIORITY QUEUING
2	20110246964	Archiving a Build Product
3	20110246891	Pushing a Graphical User Interface to a Remote Device with Display Rules Provided by the Remote Device
4	20110246806	BLOCK BASED POWER MANAGEMENT
5	20110246787	OBFUSCATING TRANSFORMATIONS ON DATA ARRAY CONTENT AND ADDRESSES
6	20110246618	CACHING MULTIPLE VIEWS CORRESPONDING TO MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIOS
7	20110246296	BACKGROUND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED CONTENT WITHIN A THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION
8	20110246290	IN APPLICATION PURCHASING
9	20110246117	CALIBRATING SENSOR MEASUREMENTS ON MOBILE DEVICES
10	20110245944	COORDINATED GROUP MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
11	20110243360	THIN PLUG ASSEMBLY AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME
12	20110243346	CABLE STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING SUPER-ELASTIC RODS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME
13	20110242986	WIRELESS CONNECTION CONTROL
14	20110242776	PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD SENSOR MOUNTING AND ALIGNMENT
15	20110242756	COMPUTER HINGE HAVING A HOLLOW CLUTCH
16	20110242747	INTEGRATED BUTTON ASSEMBLY
17	20110242088	REDUCED-POWER COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY
18	20110241656	Determining Heading Using Magnetometer Data and Angular Rate Data
19	20110241442	CAPACITIVE DOME SWITCH

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

2011-10-04 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	RE42,779	Apparatus and method for handling digital image data
2	8,032,843	User interface for providing consolidation and access
3	8,032,673	Transaction ID filtering for buffered programmed input/output (PIO) write acknowledgements
4	8,032,672	Increased speed of processing of audio samples received over a serial communications link by use of channel map and steering table
5	8,032,670	Method and apparatus for generating DMA transfers to memory
6	8,032,565	Automated creation of media asset illustrations
7	8,032,371	Determining scale factor values in encoding audio data with AAC
8	8,032,181	Service provider activation with subscriber identity module policy
9	8,031,962	Workflows for color correcting images
10	8,031,864	Dual-purpose hardware aperture
11	8,031,777	Multipass video encoding and rate control using subsampling of frames
12	8,031,569	Playing data from an optical media drive
13	8,031,174	Multi-touch surface stackup arrangement
14	8,031,164	Backlight and ambient light sensor system
15	8,031,094	Touch controller with improved analog front end
16	8,031,050	System and method for situational location relevant invocable speed reference
17	8,029,166	Active enclosure for computing device