Thursday, September 29, 2011

2011-09-29 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20110239144 CUSTOM USER INTERFACE PRESENTATION
2 20110239088 NON-REGULAR PARITY DISTRIBUTION DETECTION VIA METADATA TAG
3 20110239065 RUN-TIME TESTING OF MEMORY LOCATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
4 20110239064 MANAGEMENT OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY BASED ON TEST QUALITY
5 20110238887 HYBRID-DEVICE STORAGE BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL STATE
6 20110238886 GARBAGE COLLECTION SCHEMES FOR INDEX BLOCK
7 20110238713 PER THREAD GARBAGE COLLECTION
8 20110238699 HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPARISONS
9 20110238629 UNCORRECTABLE ERROR HANDLING SCHEMES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES
10 20110237246 WIRELESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION
11 20110237188 WIRELESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION
12 20110237134 SIMPLIFIED CONNECTOR RECEPTACLE HOUSINGS
13 20110237131 AUDIO CONNECTOR HAVING ADDITIONAL DETECTION SWITCH
14 20110235858 Grouping Digital Media Items Based on Shared Features
15 20110235709 FRAME DROPPING ALGORITHM FOR FAST ADAPTATION OF BUFFERED COMPRESSED VIDEO TO NETWORK CONDITION CHANGES
16 20110235434 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REFRESHING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
17 20110234825 ACCELEROMETER / GYRO-FACILITATED VIDEO STABILIZATION
18 20110234615 Creating Presentations Using Digital Media Content
19 20110234613 GENERATING DIGITAL MEDIA PRESENTATION LAYOUTS DYNAMICALLY BASED ON IMAGE FEATURES
20 20110234480 AUDIO PREVIEW OF MUSIC
21 20110234430 COMPLEXITY-AWARE ENCODING

 

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

2011-09-27 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO. Title
1 RE42,738 Full-Text Portable computers
2 D645,870 Full-Text Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
3 D645,860 Full-Text Computing device
4 8,028,103 Full-Text Method and apparatus for generating secure DAM transfers
5 8,028,080 Full-Text Method and apparatus for media data transmission
6 8,028,077 Full-Text Managing distributed computers
7 8,028,060 Full-Text Background task execution over a network based on network activity idle time
8 8,027,925 Full-Text System method and apparatus for authorizing access
9 8,027,837 Full-Text Using non-speech sounds during text-to-speech synthesis
10 8,027,465 Full-Text Electronic device holder
11 8,027,382 Full-Text Pulldown correction for progressive display of audiovisual recordings
12 8,027,213 Full-Text Mechanism for measuring read current variability of SRAM cells
13 8,026,905 Full-Text Double-sided touch sensitive panel and flex circuit bonding
14 8,026,904 Full-Text Periodic sensor panel baseline adjustment
15 8,026,903 Full-Text Double-sided touch sensitive panel and flex circuit bonding
16 8,026,754 Full-Text Low latency flop circuit
17 8,026,745 Full-Text Input/output driver with controlled transistor voltages
18 8,026,741 Full-Text CMOS circuitry with mixed transistor parameters

 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

2011-09-22 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20110231904 Automatic Notification System and Process
2 20110231790 MULTIPLE DASHBOARDS
3 20110231595 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING HIBERNATION DATA
4 20110231579 SELF-CONFIGURING MEDIA DEVICES AND METHODS
5 20110231557 Automatic Notification System and Process
6 20110231556 USING A PROPERTY OF A RECEIVED SIGNAL TO DETERMINE A DEVICE FOR FORMING A NETWORK CONNECTION
7 20110228482 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING A THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL
8 20110227955 KICKBACK COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES
9 20110227901 VARIABLE-BIAS POWER SUPPLY
10 20110227891 GAMMA RESISTOR SHARING FOR VCOM GENERATION
11 20110227890 CLOCK FEEDTHROUGH AND CROSSTALK REDUCTION METHOD
12 20110227857 Video Chapter Access and License Renewal
13 20110227736 ACCELERATION-BASED THEFT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
14 20110225817 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD
15 20110225812 POWER ADAPTERS FOR POWERING AND/OR CHARGING PERIPHERAL DEVICES

Of Note

Scott Forstall is the first listed inventor on the "Multiple Dashboards" patent application.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

2011-09-20 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO. Title
1 D645,472 Full-Text Icon for a portion of a display screen
2 D645,470 Full-Text Icon for a portion of a display screen
3 8,024,731 Full-Text Assigning priorities to threads of execution
4 8,024,658 Full-Text Application for designing photo albums
5 8,024,657 Full-Text Visually encoding nodes representing stages in a multi-stage video compositing operation
6 8,024,618 Full-Text Multi-client and fabric diagnostics and repair
7 8,024,552 Full-Text Performing variable and/or bitwise shift operation for a shift instruction that does not provide a variable or bitwise shift option
8 8,024,351 Full-Text Query result iteration
9 8,024,322 Full-Text Ordered index
10 8,024,295 Full-Text Method and apparatus for archiving and unarchiving objects
11 8,024,193 Full-Text Methods and apparatus related to pruning for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis
12 8,023,262 Full-Text Lid-closed detector
13 8,023,261 Full-Text Electronic device assembly
14 8,023,260 Full-Text Assembly of an electronic device
15 8,022,964 Full-Text 3D histogram and other user interface elements for color correcting images
16 8,022,935 Full-Text Capacitance sensing electrode with integrated I/O mechanism
17 8,022,571 Full-Text Power management circuitry and solar cells
18 8,021,198 Full-Text Low-profile power adapter
19 8,021,183 Full-Text Cold headed electric plug arm
20 8,020,762 Full-Text Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting

 

Thursday, September 15, 2011

2011-09-15 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20110225599 OBSERVING PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT IN AN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING PLATFORM
2 20110225249 Threaded Presentation of Electronic Mail
3 20110225178 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF METADATA
4 20110223812 AUDIO PLUG WITH CORE STRUCTURAL MEMBER
5 20110222087 PRINT ORIENTATION OF DOCUMENTS BASED ON DEVICE SENSOR OUTPUT
6 20110221604 EXTERNAL POWER SOURCE VOLTAGE DROP COMPENSATION FOR PORTABLE DEVICES
7 20110221575 RFID CIRCUITRY AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME TO PROVIDE INFORMATION OF EVENTS PERTAINING TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

 

Of Note

Scott Forstall is the first listed inventor on the Threaded Presentation of Email application.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

2011-09-13 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO. Title
1 D645,037 Full-Text Handheld portable computing device
2 8,020,149 Full-Text System and method for mitigating repeated crashes of an application resulting from supplemental code
3 8,020,105 Full-Text Unified user interface for instant messaging and email
4 8,020,100 Full-Text Fast creation of video segments
5 8,020,075 Full-Text Channel quality index feedback reduction for broadband systems
6 8,019,977 Full-Text Generating predicate values during vector processing
7 8,019,976 Full-Text Memory-hazard detection and avoidance instructions for vector processing
8 8,019,725 Full-Text Software update management
9 8,019,096 Full-Text Electronic device and external equipment with configurable audio path circuitry
10 8,018,994 Full-Text Selecting encoding types and predictive modes for encoding video data
11 8,018,579 Full-Text Three-dimensional imaging and display system
12 8,018,465 Full-Text Optimizing the execution of media processing routines using a list of routine identifiers
13 8,018,389 Full-Text Methods and apparatus for improving the performance of an electronic device having one or more antennas