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iPod as remote control, wireless iPod sync, and more

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Applications published on July 19, 2007.

20070169115 Portable media player as a low power remote control and method thereof (17 pages)
Using an iPod as a remote control for a media server, the media server wirelessly streaming the selecting item to a stereo, for example.

20070169087 Remote content updates for portable media devices (19 pages)
Wireless iPod synchronization.

20070166687 Graphical user interface with improved media presentation (22 pages)
Displaying remotely stored media content that is related to currently displayed local media content. This is the iTunes Store recommendations feature.

20070166683 Dynamic lyrics display for portable media devices (21 pages)

20070165373 Computer component protection (21 pages)
Shock mount assembly in a laptop to provide impact absorption. Designed to protect the optical drive and the screen of the laptop.

20070165105 Multimedia conference recording and manipulation interface (12 pages)
Recording an iChat session.

20070165035 Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features (415 pages)

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Wireless iPod/iPhone data transfers, iPhoto, and more

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Applications published on July 12, 2007 (part 3 of 3).

20070161402 Media data exchange, transfer or delivery for portable electronic devices (37 pages)
Wireless data transfer between mobile devices, e.g., wireless iPod or iPhone transfers. According to the claims, only one of the devices is a portable device. Though that does not prevent the device at the other end of the exchange from being a portable device, it just doesn’t require it. This covers transfers from, for example, a desktop computer to an iPod.

20070160290 Text flow in and around irregular containers (14 pages)

20070159651 Publishing and subscribing to digital image feeds (18 pages)
Photocasting, or RSS feeds with iPhoto.

20070159497 Rotation control (14 pages)
Manipulating 3D graphics using a 2D input device (like a mouse).

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Applications published on July 12, 2007 (Part 2 of 3)

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

20070162842 Selective content imaging for web pages (12 pages)
Relates to creating Web pages with iWeb.

20070162839 Syndicated audio authoring (11 pages)

20070162589 File sharing using instant messaging applications (32 pages)
File sharing using iChat.

20070162574 Data serialization in a user switching environment (16 pages)
Switching user sessions under OS X.

20070162298 Systems and methods for presenting data items (77 pages)
Showing data items based on the significance of the item. One way to indicate significance is by the number of times that the item was accessed within a given period of time (for example, the number of times in a day or week). The one claim (which I imagine will be replaced) is directed to using this type of display on a Web page.

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Applications published on July 12, 2007 (Part 1 of 3)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

20070162855 Movie authoring (20 pages)
Movie authoring via iMovie, including automated movie authoring. Claims are directed to adding themes, the iMovie UI, and a method for automatically authoring parts of a movie.

20070162850 Sports-related widgets (22 pages)
Aggregating sports-related information from one or more sources into a single widget. Not sure why they focuses on sports for this widget, but paragraph 0078 includes the catch-all, saying that this invention also applies to “any type of news item”.

20070162848 Predictive styling (13 pages)
Determining style attributes for objects added to a document based on a template used for the document.

A side note to the author of this application: get formal drawings before you file the case or at least on file in plenty of time to make sure the formals get published.

20070162846 Automatic sub-template selection based on content (12 pages)
Creating or editing a Web page using iWeb. A user selects a content item to be added to the Web page and the code to include the item in the Web page is automatically created.

20070162845 User interface for webpage creation/editing (16 pages)
UI for iWeb, including updating pages as they would appear on the Web in real time based on changes made by the user. Claims are directed to using a template to create the Web page and real time updating.

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Applications published on July 5, 2007 (Part 3 of 3)

Monday, August 20th, 2007

20070152980 Touch screen keyboards for portable electronic devices (47 pages)
Various on-screen keyboards for use on an iPhone. Claims are directed to estimating where on the screen the user touched relative to the displayed keyboard, so the user doesn’t have to be 100% accurate with their typing.

20070152978 Keyboards for portable electronic devices (45 pages)
Related to the application listed above. Claims recite a keyboard in which at least some of the icons contain two or more symbols.

20070152977 Illuminated touchpad (34 pages)
Touchpad (examples shown include an iPod scroll wheel or a laptop trackpad) that at least a portion of lights up when touched.

20070152966 Mouse with optical sensing surface (27 pages)
A mouse that can sense different gestures made on its outer surface.

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Applications published on July 5, 2007 (Part 2 of 3)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

20070156910 Method and apparatus for displaying information during an instant messaging session (16 pages)
iChat interface with speech balloons (yes, they claimed the speech balloons) positioning different users in different parts of the application window.

20070156364 Light activated hold switch (25 pages)
Using light to activate and deactive a hold switch for an iPod. The device enters a hold mode when it’s dark and leaves the hold mode when it’s light; dark and light being relative to a detected ambient light level. The claims are drafted to more broadly cover this, reciting a portable electronic device and one or more sensors, so the invention is not limited to iPods or to using light to toggle the hold mode.

20070155307 Media data transfer (39 pages)
Using local servers to wirelessly transmit data to devices within range of the local server. The local server discovers a nearby device, lets the device know that there is available content, the user makes a selection, and the local server sends the content to the device. The local server can also retrieve certain profile information from the device before presenting the list of available content to the device (i.e., subscription-related information or preferences).
This application is part of a larger family; there are five other related applications.

20070152984 Portable electronic device with multi-touch input (21 pages)
iPhone and the overall multi-touch UI.

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Non-iPhone related applications published on June 28, 2007

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

20070150686 Accessing data storage systems without waiting for read errors (14 pages)

20070150628 USB device notification (11 pages)
Relates to hot-pluggable USB devices and communicating with the system once connected.

20070147698 Image sharpening using diffusion (10 pages)

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Patents issued on June 26, 2007

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

7,237,135 Cyclemaster synchronization in a distributed bridge (11 pages)
Synchronizing devices over a FireWire connection.

7,236,528 System and method for processing time-based media (16 pages)

7,236,154 Computer light adjustment (25 pages)
Adjust the light level output of a computer based on the measured ambient light around the computer. For example, used with lighting a laptop keyboard.

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Applications published on June 14, 2007

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

20070136695 Graphical user interface (GUI), a synthesiser and a computer system including a GUI (7 pages)

20070132789 List scrolling in response to moving contact over list of index symbols (29 pages)
Scrolling through a list of items on a touch-sensitive screen (like an iPhone). Includes scrolling through a group of items if the user touches an index item.

20070132764 System and method for displaying text (21 pages)
About drawing fonts on a screen.

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Applications published on June 7, 2007

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

20070129828 Portable audio device providing automated control of audio volume parameters for hearing protection (9 pages)
Automatically setting a maximum playback volume level in an iPod.

20070130541 Synchronization of widgets and dashboards (34 pages)
This title is self-explanatory.

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