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Patents issued on May 22, 2007

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

7,222,310 Graphical user interface(GUI), a synthesiser and a computer system including a GUI (6 pages)
A GUI for displaying three or more input signals. Used in audio and video editing. Uses the GUI to simulate a hardware audio/video editing board.

7,221,570 Heat dissipating device for an integrated circuit chip (14 pages)
Heat dissipation for a chip. Order of stacked components, starting from the bottom: support board, chip, thermal gap filler pad, support structure, heat dissipating device.

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Patents issued on May 8, 2007

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

D542,306 Media device (5 pages)
Design for the iPod with click wheel.

D542,288 Computing device (4 pages)
Design for the Mac mini.

7,216,304 Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons (11 pages)
This patent is related to an application that was published in April 2007 (read that discussion here) about variable sized icons. The claims of this patent relate to a method for varying the size of displayed icons.

7,216,302 Method and system for automatically resizing and repositioning windows in response to changes in display (12 pages)
Repositioning and resizing windows in a GUI based on changes in the display resolution. The claims relate to a method for maintaining the windows in a preferred screen position.

7,215,813 Method and apparatus for color correction (35 pages)
GUI for performing color correction. Users can changes the colorspace of individual pixels, and other pixels will change proportionally in response.

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Patents issued on May 1, 2007

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

RE39,610  Systems and methods for replacing open windows in a graphical user interface    (12 pages)
Returning a GUI window to its original screen location. This is used, for example, with multiple stacked windows. The user selects a window lower down in the stack to work in, and then that window is returned to its original position in the stack. This reissue patent added storing an initial location and position for a window to the claims; this feature was not present in the originally issued patent (which issued in June 2000).

D541,799  Electronic device    (5 pages)
Design for flat-panel iMac with the camera at the top front of the display.

7,213,103  Accessing data storage systems without waiting for read errors    (16 pages)
Accessing data on a data storage system that is experiencing a slow access (i.e., access that takes more than a predetermined length of time).

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Patents issued on April 24, 2007

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

D541,299  Media device    (5 pages)
Design for the iPod, 4G and up, in black.

D541,298  Media device    (5 pages)
Design for the iPod, 4G and up.

D541,297  Media device    (4 pages)
Design for the iPod nano.

D541,042  Electronic device holder    (7 pages)
Design for the iPod nano arm band.

7,209,344  Computer controlled display device    (136 pages)
Various embodiments for the old iMac “desklamp” design. In 102 pages of drawings, this patent shows the mechanical aspects of how the screen is supported and moves.

7,209,146  Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects    (20 pages)
Fade transition effects for video clips.

7,207,104  Hybrid ground grid for printed circuit board    (15 pages)
Printed circuit board layout with ground traces.

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Patent issued on April 17, 2007

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

7,206,001  Fractal-dithering technique for image display    (8 pages)

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Applications published on April 12, 2007 (Part 2 of 2)

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

20070083911  Intelligent media navigation    (69 pages)
Navigating sequential media content (i.e., the Front Row interface).

20070083825  Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface    (30 pages)
Displaying different kinds of user informational windows (e.g., system alerts) in a GUI that automatically disappear after a user-triggered event or input or after a set period of time. Also includes windows that fade out, like the volume adjustment window.

20070083822  Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs    (17 pages)
Rotational input in a GUI is transformed into linear action (i.e., using an iPod scroll wheel to navigate through a GUI).

20070083616  Multi-media center for computing systems    (15 pages)
A modular architecture for a multimedia center. (To be reviewed in greater detail soon.)

20070083471  Techniques and systems for electronic submission of media for network-based distribution    (49 pages)
Submitting media to a media distribution site, which is then later encoded for subsequent purchase and downloading.

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Patent issued on April 10, 2007

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

7,203,778 Method and system for notifying clients of a specific change in a data processing system (12 pages)
Method and system for USB device notification.

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Patents issued on April 3, 2007

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

D539,814 Electronic device (3 pages)
First generation iPod Shuffle.

7,200,836 Menu authoring for automatically performing low-level DVD configuration functions (40 pages)
DVD authoring system.

7,199,805 Method and apparatus for titling (30 pages)
Creating titles and text effects in movies.

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Patents issued on March 27, 2007

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

D539,327  Electronic device support stand    (4 pages)
A design patent for the iSight camera stand.

7,196,690  Input device off table switch    (13 pages)
A method and system to handle mousing while repositioning the mouse during a selection process (i.e., keeping the button pressed to extend a selection while picking up and moving the mouse to continue the selection). Useful when a user reaches the edge of a mousepad or other mouse-tracking surface.

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Patents issued on March 20, 2007

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

D538,822  Electronic device    (5 pages)

D538,820  Media device    (4 pages)

7,194,692  Method and apparatus for binding user interface objects to application objects    (24 pages)

7,194,564  Method and apparatus for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus    (32 pages)

7,194,035  Method and apparatus for improved coding mode selection    (12 pages)

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