igoeIP Apple Patent Blog: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

2012-01-31 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	D653,236	Earphone
2	D653,213	Power module
3	8,108,685	Apparatus and method for indicating password quality and variety
4	8,108,650	Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) with reserved areas for specific sources
5	8,108,633	Shared stream memory on multiple processors
6	8,108,261	Store affiliation system
7	8,108,144	Location based tracking
8	8,107,183	Method and device for hard drive shock event detection
9	8,106,926	Controlling a display device to display portions of an entire image in a display area
10	8,106,856	Portable electronic device for photo management
11	8,106,836	Hybrid antennas for electronic devices
12	8,106,630	Method and system for operating a portable electronic device in a power-limited manner
13	8,104,911	Display system with distributed LED backlight

Thursday, January 26, 2012

2012-01-26 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

PUB. APP. NO.	Title
1	20120023597	MAGNETICALLY-IMPLEMENTED SECURITY DEVICES
2	20120023506	Maintaining Data States Upon Forced Exit
3	20120023439	Chunking Data Records
4	20120023434	USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING CONSOLIDATION AND ACCESS
5	20120023427	USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING CONSOLIDATION AND ACCESS
6	20120023365	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING WRITE OPERATIONS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
7	20120023357	CYCLEMASTER SYNCHRONIZATION IN A DISTRIBUTED BRIDGE
8	20120023356	PEAK POWER VALIDATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
9	20120023351	DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF POWER BUDGET FOR A SYSTEM HAVING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
10	20120023348	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING OPERATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TO LIMIT POWER CONSUMPTION
11	20120023347	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING OPERATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TO LIMIT POWER CONSUMPTION
12	20120023346	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING OPERATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TO LIMIT POWER CONSUMPTION
13	20120023274	INCREASED SPEED OF PROCESSING OF DATA RECEIVED OVER A COMMUNICATIONS LINK
14	20120023199	SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT FOR iAP ACCESSORIES
15	20120023185	ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT PROTOCOL AND RESPONSIVE ACTIONS
16	20120023060	ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCHING
17	20120022967	MIXED SOURCE MEDIA PLAYBACK
18	20120022943	APPLICATION PURCHASING
19	20120022872	Automatically Adapting User Interfaces For Hands-Free Interaction
20	20120021773	LOCATION-BASED MEDIA PRESENTATION
21	20120021619	PROGRAMMABLE MAGNETIC CONNECTORS
22	20120021196	SMOOTH COMPOSITE STRUCTURE
23	20120020644	PLAYING DATA FROM AN OPTICAL MEDIA DRIVE
24	20120019546	COLOR CORRECTION OF MIRRORED DISPLAYS
25	20120019494	ALIGNMENT FACTOR FOR AMBIENT LIGHTING CALIBRATION
26	20120019493	DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS CONTROL TEMPORAL RESPONSE
27	20120019492	DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS CONTROL BASED ON AMBIENT LIGHT LEVELS
28	20120019371	APPARATUS AND METHOD TO FACILITATE UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL
29	20120019152	DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS CONTROL BASED ON AMBIENT LIGHT ANGLES
30	20120019151	AMBIENT LIGHT CALIBRATION FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN DISPLAY SYSTEMS

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

2012-01-24 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	RE43,144	System for predicting and managing network performance by managing and monitoring resource utilization and connection of network
2	D652,843	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	8,104,048	Browsing or searching user interfaces and other aspects
4	8,103,951	Dynamic schema creation
5	8,103,893	Thermal management of devices by suspension of offline diagnostic activities
6	8,103,793	Method and system for updating playlists
7	8,103,505	Method and apparatus for speech synthesis using paralinguistic variation
8	8,103,287	Methods and apparatus for resolving wireless signal components
9	8,103,272	Techniques for database updates
10	8,103,097	Colour invariant image representation method and apparatus
11	8,102,931	Method and device for operating a precoded MIMO system
12	8,102,728	Cache optimizations using multiple threshold voltage transistors
13	8,102,365	Remote control systems that can distinguish stray light sources
14	8,102,321	Cavity antenna for an electronic device
15	8,102,319	Hybrid antennas for electronic devices
16	8,102,318	Inverted-F antenna with bandwidth enhancement for electronic devices
17	8,101,859	Metal retaining features for handheld electronic device casing
18	8,100,544	LED backlight for display systems

Friday, January 20, 2012

2012-01-19 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

Title
1	20120017107	SYNCHRONOUS BUS DRIVING WITH REPEATERS
2	20120016748	SYSTEMS, METHODS, NETWORK ELEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH BROWSING OF WEB/WAP SITES AND SERVICES
3	20120016678	Intelligent Automated Assistant
4	20120015236	DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF NON-RECTANGULAR BATTERIES
5	20120015223	BATTERY PACK WITH CELLS OF DIFFERENT CAPACITIES
6	20120013823	EXTERNAL LIGHT ILLUMINATION OF DISPLAY SCREENS
7	20120013819	MANUFACTURING AND TESTING TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS
8	20120013775	Enhanced Image Capture Sharpening
9	20120013490	ILLUMINATION OF INPUT DEVICE
10	20120012448	KEYBOARD ILLUMINATION
11	20120011690	REMOVABLE FIXTURE FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012-01-17 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.	Title
1	D652,428	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D652,426	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	8,099,665	Organizing and sorting media menu items
4	8,099,591	Techniques and graphical user interfaces for categorical shuffle
5	8,099,536	Communication between an accessory and a media player with general and accessory lingoes
6	8,099,528	Data filtering using central DMA mechanism
7	8,099,476	Updatable real-time or near real-time streaming
8	8,099,473	Variant streams for real-time or near real-time streaming
9	8,099,392	Electronic backup of applications
10	8,099,332	User interface for application management for a mobile device
11	8,099,258	Smart garment
12	8,099,252	Self-test power management unit
13	8,099,091	Method to control configuration change times in a wireless device
14	8,099,079	Method and system for distributing data to mobile devices
15	8,098,838	Detecting the repositioning of an earphone using a microphone and associated action
16	8,098,534	Integrated circuit with separate supply voltage for memory that is different from logic circuit supply voltage
17	8,098,262	Arbitrary fractional pixel movement
18	8,098,261	Pillarboxing correction
19	8,098,256	Video acquisition with integrated GPU processing
20	8,098,250	Adaptive and dynamic text filtering
21	8,098,233	Wide touchpad on a portable computer
22	8,097,956	Flexible packaging for chip-on-chip and package-on-package technologies

Of Note

"Smart Garment":Track clothing usage and wear with an iPhone?

1. A method, comprising:

electronically pairing a garment sensor and a garment by way of a first bi-directional communication link,
- wherein the garment sensor is physically affixed to the garment;
tracking garment usage and detecting wear patterns involving the garment using the garment sensor;
forming a second bi-directional communication link between the garment sensor and an external database;
sending the tracked garment usage and detected wear patterns to the external database;
receiving expected useful lifetime information for the garment from the external database,
- wherein the expected useful lifetime information is based on tracked garment usage and detected wear patterns from a plurality of similar garments; and
alerting a user when the garment reaches its expected useful lifetime, based on the received expected useful lifetime information and on the tracked garment usage.