igoeIP Apple Patent Blog: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

2011-08-30 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	D644,246	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D644,245	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	D644,244	Icon for a portion of a display screen
4	D644,243	Icon for a portion of a display screen
5	D644,242	Icon for a portion of a display screen
6	D644,241	Icon for a portion of a display screen
7	D644,239	Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
8	D644,238	Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
9	D644,218	Electronic device with cover
10	D644,208	Dock insert
11	8,010,937	Method and apparatus for application building using build styles
12	8,010,900	User interface for electronic backup
13	8,010,370	Bitrate control for perceptual coding
14	8,009,737	Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding with reduced requirements for division operations
15	8,009,736	Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding with reduced requirements for division operations
16	8,009,177	User interfaces for managing image colors
17	8,009,176	System and method for processing graphics operations with graphics processing unit

Thursday, August 25, 2011

2011-08-25 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110209221	Proximity Based Networked Media File Sharing
2	20110209085	MODE ACTIVATED SCROLLING
3	20110209028	CODEWORD REMAPPING SCHEMES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES
4	20110208993	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING AND FIXING ELECTRONIC DEVICES
5	20110208896	DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING NUMBER OF BITS PER CELL FOR MEMORY LOCATIONS OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
6	20110208732	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA ITEMS
7	20110208524	USER PROFILING FOR VOICE INPUT PROCESSING
8	20110207459	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL RESELECTION
9	20110206285	OBFUSCATING THE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION AND REMOVING THE OBFUSCATION USING A FILTER
10	20110205382	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY CODING AND PROCESSING IMAGE DATA
11	20110204793	DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROL BASED ON INTEGRATED AMBIENT LIGHT DETECTION AND LIGHTING SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS
12	20110203912	STACKED METAL AND ELASTOMERIC DOME FOR KEY SWITCH

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

2011-08-23 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO.		Title
1	8,006,250		Creating an object in an object-oriented programming platform
2	8,006,194		Associating an object with a relevant data source
3	8,006,192		Layered graphical user interface
4	8,006,185		Three dimensional viewer for video
5	8,006,121		Systems and methods for diagnosing and fixing electronic devices
6	8,006,020		Personal media device docking station having an accessory device detector
7	8,006,019		Method and system for transferring stored data between a media player and an accessory
8	8,006,002		Methods and systems for automatic configuration of peripherals
9	8,005,864		Index aging and merging
10	8,005,139		Encoding with visual masking
11	8,004,529		Processing an animation file to provide an animated icon
12	8,004,525		Displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics
13	8,004,500		Switched capacitor projection scan multi-touch sensor array
14	8,004,493		Methods and systems for providing sensory information to devices and peripherals
15	8,004,113		Methods and apparatuses for operating devices with solar power
16	RE42,639		Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image
17	D643,853		Icon for a portion of a display screen
18	D643,852		Icon for a portion of a display screen
19	D643,849		Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
20	D643,844		Stand

Of Note

Jonathan Ive is a listed inventor on the "Stand" design patent.

I'd like to be writing more, but, as you may have noticed, there's a lot going on in the patent world. Things are bit busy at the moment.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

2011-08-18 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

	PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20110202823	PASTING A SET OF CELLS
2	20110202674	Dynamic Adjustments of Video Streams
3	20110201213	LOW PROFILE CONNECTOR SYSTEM
4	20110199479	AUGMENTED REALITY MAPS
5	20110199171	Multi-Position Magnetic Detents

Of Note

This one might just get narrowed a little during prosecution:

1. A method for pasting, comprising:

receiving a selection of an option to paste a set of cells in a paste destination;

determining that the paste destination is not large enough to accommodate a paste operation associated with the selected option; and

automatically expanding the paste destination using a processor so that the paste destination is large enough to accommodate the paste operation.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

2011-08-16 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO.		Title
1	D643,437		Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
2	D643,436		Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
3	D643,403		Media player
4	D643,402		Media device
5	8,001,472		Systems and methods for providing audio and visual cues via a portable electronic device
6	8,001,400		Power consumption management for functional preservation in a battery-powered electronic device
7	8,001,359		Mapping an N-bit application ported from an M-bit application to an N-bit architecture
8	8,001,314		Storing a driver for controlling a memory
9	8,001,211		Convergence-enabled DVD and web system
10	8,001,187		Peer-to-peer active content sharing
11	8,001,148		Caching permissions information
12	8,001,011		Method and apparatus for deferred purchasing of marked digital media items
13	8,000,736		User programmable switch for portable data processing devices
14	8,000,694		Communications device having a commute time function and methods of use thereof
15	8,000,598		Lens baffle
16	8,000,228		Pilot signal in an FDMA communication system
17	8,000,134		Off-die charge pump that supplies multiple flash devices
18	7,999,795		Double-sided touch sensitive panel and flex circuit bonding
19	7,999,748		Antennas for electronic devices
20	7,997,906		Techniques for coupling interfaces parts using moveable magnetic elements