Thursday, June 28, 2012

2012-06-28 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

  PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20120167009 COMBINING TIMING AND GEOMETRY INFORMATION FOR TYPING CORRECTION
2 20120166981 CONCURRENTLY DISPLAYING A DROP ZONE EDITOR WITH A MENU EDITOR DURING THE CREATION OF A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE
3 20120166942 USING PARTS-OF-SPEECH TAGGING AND NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION FOR SPELLING CORRECTION
4 20120166765 PREDICTING BRANCHES FOR VECTOR PARTITIONING LOOPS WHEN PROCESSING VECTOR INSTRUCTIONS
5 20120166477 Universal Interface for Retrieval of Information in a Computer System
6 20120166429 USING STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTEXTUAL LOOKUP
7 20120166192 PROVIDING TEXT INPUT USING SPEECH DATA AND NON-SPEECH DATA
8 20120162751 OPTICAL COATING FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE DISPLAY
9 20120162465 ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TWO IMAGE SENSORS
10 20120162156 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE IMAGE EDGE DISCOLORATION
11 20120162095 INTERNAL OPTICAL COATING FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE DISPLAY
12 20120160079 MUSICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

2012-06-26 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO.   Title
1 D662,503 Full-Text Housing for an electronic device
2 D662,497 Full-Text Electronic device
3 D662,495 Full-Text Earphone
4 D662,492 Full-Text Docking station
5 D662,491 Full-Text Docking station
6 D662,473 Full-Text Power adapter
7 8,209,749 Full-Text Uninterrupted virtual private network (VPN) connection service with dynamic policy enforcement
8 8,209,637 Full-Text Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image
9 8,209,632 Full-Text Image mask interface
10 8,209,630 Full-Text Device, method, and graphical user interface for resizing user interface content
11 8,209,612 Full-Text Application of speed effects to a video presentation
12 8,209,606 Full-Text Device, method, and graphical user interface for list scrolling on a touch-screen display
13 8,209,540 Full-Text Incremental secure backup and restore of user settings and data
14 8,209,525 Full-Text Method and apparatus for executing program code
15 8,209,446 Full-Text DMA controller that passes destination pointers from transmit logic through a loopback buffer to receive logic to write data to memory
16 8,209,376 Full-Text Application-specific group listing
17 8,208,978 Full-Text Small lanyard connector for low profile device
18 8,208,900 Full-Text Secure device configuration profiles
19 8,208,867 Full-Text Shared multiband antennas and antenna diversity circuitry for electronic devices
20 8,208,853 Full-Text Accessory device authentication
21 8,208,789 Full-Text Video program authoring systems and methods
22 8,208,565 Full-Text Pre-processing method and system for data reduction of video sequences and bit rate reduction of compressed video sequences using temporal filtering
23 8,208,536 Full-Text Method and apparatus for encoding using single pass rate controller
24 8,207,974 Full-Text Switch for graphics processing units
25 8,207,946 Full-Text Light sensitive display
26 8,207,906 Full-Text Antenna insert
27 8,206,290 Full-Text Medical inspection device
28 8,205,499 Full-Text Method and apparatus for checking an acoustic test fixture

Friday, June 22, 2012

2012-06-21 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

  PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20120159186 SECURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESS USING KEY EXPANSION
2 20120159011 ENHANCEMENTS TO DATA-DRIVEN MEDIA MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
3 20120158730 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF METADATA
4 20120158677 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STREAMING COMPRESSED FILES VIA A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
5 20120157158 Magnetometer Accuracy and Use
6 20120155638 SECURING KEYS OF A CIPHER USING PROPERTIES OF THE CIPHER PROCESS
7 20120155292 MOBILE HARDWARE AND NETWORK ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION
8 20120155174 Use of Alternative Value in Cell Detection
9 20120154428 SPATIO-TEMPORAL COLOR LUMINANCE DITHERING TECHNIQUES
10 20120154423 LUMINANCE-BASED DITHERING TECHNIQUE
11 20120154415 FRAMEWORK FOR GRAPHICS ANIMATION AND COMPOSITING OPERATIONS
12 20120154268 REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS THAT CAN DISTINGUISH STRAY LIGHT SOURCES
13 20120153898 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARGING A SERIES BATTERY
14 20120153728 BALANCING VOLTAGES BETWEEN BATTERY BANKS
15 20120152613 HIGH-SPEED CONNECTOR INSERTS AND CABLES

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2012-06-19 Newly Issued Apple Patents

PAT. NO.   Title
1 D662,084 Full-Text Docking station
2 D662,083 Full-Text Docking station
3 D662,049 Full-Text Electronic device
4 8,205,265 Full-Text Techniques to pollute electronic profiling
5 8,205,157 Full-Text Methods and graphical user interfaces for conducting searches on a portable multifunction device
6 8,205,154 Full-Text User definable transition tool
7 8,205,081 Full-Text Systems and methods for verifying the authenticity of a remote device
8 8,205,070 Full-Text Device bootup from a NAND-type non-volatile memory
9 8,204,684 Full-Text Adaptive mobile device navigation
10 8,204,008 Full-Text Techniques for resource block mapping in a wireless communication system
11 8,203,898 Full-Text Leakage and NBTI reduction technique for memory
12 8,203,892 Full-Text Interleaving charge pumps for programmable memories
13 8,203,571 Full-Text 3D histogram for color images
14 8,203,558 Full-Text Dynamic shader generation
15 8,203,512 Full-Text Subtractive display
16 8,203,094 Full-Text Switch assembly constructions

Thursday, June 14, 2012

2012-06-14 Newly Published Apple Patent Applications

  PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20120151466 REMOTE CONTENT UPDATES FOR PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICES
2 20120151120 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY OPERATING AT A SUBSTANTIALLY FULL CAPACITY
3 20120149308 NETWORK STATUS
4 20120148225 LIGHT ISOLATING PROTECTIVE COVER FOR SMALL FORM FACTOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE
5 20120147193 Back Panel for a Portable Electronic Device with Different Camera Lens Options
6 20120147011 System for Optimizing Graphics Operations
7 20120145841 FLAT PANEL DISPLAY INCLUDING A HINGE ASSEMBLY

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

2012-06-12 Newly Issued Apple Patents

  PAT. NO.   Title
1 D661,707 Full-Text Display module for an electronic device
2 D661,693 Full-Text Electronic device
3 D661,649 Full-Text Power adapter
4 8,201,214 Full-Text Ad-hoc user account creation
5 8,201,109 Full-Text Methods and graphical user interfaces for editing on a portable multifunction device
6 8,201,102 Full-Text Opaque views for graphical user interfaces
7 8,201,096 Full-Text Browsing or searching user interfaces and other aspects
8 8,200,986 Full-Text Computer enabled secure status return
9 8,200,881 Full-Text Communication between a host device and an accessory via an intermediate device
10 8,200,761 Full-Text Method and apparatus for improving security in a data processing system
11 8,200,727 Full-Text Method and apparatus for verifying and diversifying randomness
12 8,200,629 Full-Text Image scaling arrangement
13 8,200,251 Full-Text Determining a location of a mobile device using a location database
14 8,200,007 Full-Text Illuminant estimation
15 8,199,846 Full-Text Generalized reference signaling scheme for multi-user, multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) using arbitrarily precoded reference signals
16 8,199,719 Full-Text Methods and apparatus for performing handover between a long term evolution (LTE) network and another type of radio access network
17 8,199,477 Full-Text Portable computers with spring-mounted displays
18 8,199,469 Full-Text Battery
19 8,199,468 Full-Text Computer housing
20 8,199,249 Full-Text Image capture using display device as light source
21 8,198,525 Full-Text Collectively adjusting tracks using a digital audio workstation
22 8,196,636 Full-Text 3-dimensional curved substrate lamination