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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
19. A device, comprising:
a touch screen
display;
one or more processors;
memory; and
one or more
programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and
configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the programs
including:
instructions for displaying a first portion of an
electronic document;
instructions for detecting a movement of an
object on or near the touch screen display;
instructions for
translating the electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in a
first direction to display a second portion of the electronic document, wherein
the second portion is different from the first portion, in response to detecting
the movement;
instructions for displaying an area beyond an edge of
the electronic document and displaying a third portion of the electronic
document, wherein the third portion is smaller than the first portion, in
response to the edge of the electronic document being reached while translating
the electronic document in the first direction while the object is still
detected on or near the touch screen display; and
instructions for
translating the electronic document in a second direction until the area beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed to display a fourth
portion of the electronic document, wherein the fourth portion is different from
the first portion, in response to detecting that the object is no longer on or
near the touch screen display.
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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
19. A device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more
processors; memory; and
one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs
are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more
processors, the programs including:
The device is a desktop
or laptop computer with a touch screen, and software, including software for
displaying maps:
instructions for displaying a first portion of
an electronic document;
The electronic document is a map,
viewed in a rectangle on screen with a thin black border. The ‘first
portion’ of the electronic document is the portion of the map
visible.
instructions for detecting a movement of an object
on or near the touch screen display;
This display is
touch-sensitive.
instructions for translating the
electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in a first direction
to display a second portion of the electronic document, wherein the second
portion is different from the first portion, in response to detecting the
movement;
The finger may be placed on a city, so that the
city can be dragged around, and the map translated to keep the city under the
finger, thereby displaying a ‘second portion’ of the
document.
instructions for displaying an area beyond an
edge of the electronic document and displaying a third portion of the electronic
document, wherein the third portion is smaller than the first portion, in
response to the edge of the electronic document being reached while translating
the electronic document in the first direction while the object is still
detected on or near the touch screen display; and
As the
finger approaches the bottom of the black border, from outside the border
region, the bottom border starts moving upwards to display ‘an area beyond
an edge of the electronic document’ on which are placed several icons.
When the city under the finger reaches the bottom border, that border is raised
so that the portion of the map displayed (i.e., the ‘third portion’)
is smaller than the first portion.
The finger is dragged over ‘the
edge of the document’ (i.e., the black border round the map) towards a
chosen icon, and the software records what part of the map was immediately under
the finger when the black border was crossed, thus identifying the geographical
location of the city under the finger.
instructions for
translating the electronic document in a second direction until the area beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no longer displayed to display a fourth
portion of the electronic document, wherein the fourth portion is different from
the first portion, in response to detecting that the object is no longer on or
near the touch screen display.
Once the finger is lifted
off the chosen icon, the black border moves downwards to its normal position, so
that the ‘area beyond the edge of the electronic document’
containing the icons is covered over, and the map translates so that the
selected city is in the centre of the map. When this is achieved a
‘fourth portion’ of the electronic document is displayed, different
from the ‘first portion’.
The display then pans in or out,
to enlarge or reduce the scale of the map, with the chosen city in the centre.
The scale factor is determined by the particular icon previously
selected.
This invention of mine should have utility in enabling people
to view maps on a touch-screen device with a convenient interface, focussing in
or out at will, simply by dragging the city or geographical feature of interest
down towards an appropriate icon displayed when the bottom edge of the map lifts
up.
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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 04:43 PM EDT |
Another potentially infringing device.
19. A device,
comprising: a touch screen display; one or more
processors; memory; and
one or
more programs, wherein the one or more programs
are stored in the memory and
configured to be executed by the one or more
processors, the programs
including:
The device is a desktop
or laptop computer with a
touch screen, and software, including software for handling social
networks:
instructions for displaying a first portion of
an
electronic document;
The electronic document is a long
series of photographs of friends on a social network, with names listed under
each photograph. Underneath the displayed portion of the document is a long
line (resembling a groove) with a slider.
instructions for
detecting a movement of an object
on or near the touch screen
display;
This display
is
touch-sensitive.
instructions for translating
the
electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in a first
direction
to display a second portion of the electronic document, wherein the
second
portion is different from the first portion, in response to detecting
the
movement;
The slider can be dragged along the line at
the bottom of the screen, and the portion of the displayed series of photographs
will move accordingly. It is also possible to select particular friends, to add
them to a group, by tapping on the photo with a finger. In this way one can
select a group of friends from the display of all friends. The nametags of the
friends gain a light blue background as they are
selected.
instructions for displaying an area beyond
an
edge of the electronic document and displaying a third portion of the
electronic
document, wherein the third portion is smaller than the first
portion, in
response to the edge of the electronic document being reached while
translating
the electronic document in the first direction while the object is
still
detected on or near the touch screen display; and
As
the slider approaches the right hand end of the groove, the displayed sequence
of photos moves to the left to reveal an area beyond the edge of the document in
which is an array of icons, in 'Add' and 'Delete' columns, with rows
representing specific groups representing groups.
instructions for
translating the electronic document in a
second direction until the area beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no
longer displayed to display a fourth
portion of the electronic document, wherein
the fourth portion is different from
the first portion, in response to detecting
that the object is no longer on or
near the touch screen
display.
The relevant icon is tapped, and then, once the
finger has lifted from the icon, and is thus ‘no longer on or near the
touch screen display’, the electronic document (i.e., the long sequence of
photos) is translated to the right to cover over the array of icons, thus
displaying the fourth portion of that list of images, distinct from the
first portion.
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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 05:31 PM EDT |
19. A device,
comprising: a touch screen display; one or
more
processors; memory; and
one or
more programs, wherein the one or more
programs
are stored in the memory and
configured to be executed by the one or
more
processors, the programs
including:
The device is a
desktop
or laptop computer with a
touch screen, and software, including software
for viewing PDF documents.
instructions for displaying a
first portion of
an
electronic document;
The electronic
document is a PDF document, normally displayed
full-screen.
instructions for
detecting a movement of an
object
on or near the touch screen
display;
This
display
is
touch-sensitive.
instructions for
translating
the
electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in a
first
direction
to display a second portion of the electronic document, wherein
the
second
portion is different from the first portion, in response to
detecting
the
movement;
The document can be dragged around
by finger
movements on the touch display.
instructions for
displaying an area beyond
an
edge of the electronic document and displaying a
third portion of the
electronic
document, wherein the third portion is smaller
than the first
portion, in
response to the edge of the electronic document being
reached while
translating
the electronic document in the first direction while
the object is
still
detected on or near the touch screen display;
and
Once the left-hand edge of the document appears, it
keeps moving to the right, to expose a side panel with a sequence of icons
downwards representing pages.
instructions for
translating
the electronic document in a
second direction until the area beyond
the edge of
the electronic document is no
longer displayed to display a fourth
portion of
the electronic document, wherein
the fourth portion is different from
the first
portion, in response to detecting
that the object is no longer on or
near the
touch screen
display.
When a page icon is tapped and
released, the page moves leftwards and either downwards or upwards to reposition
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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 05:44 PM EDT |
19. A device,
comprising: a touch screen display; one or
more
processors; memory; and
one or
more programs, wherein the one or more
programs
are stored in the memory and
configured to be executed by the one or
more
processors, the programs
including:
The device is a
desktop
or laptop computer with a
touch screen, and software, including software
for managing a graphical shell like KDE or GNOME:
instructions
for displaying a first portion of
an
electronic
document;
There are four windows onto the desktop. A
portion
of one of these windows is displayed.
instructions
for
detecting a movement of an object
on or near the touch
screen
display;
This
display
is
touch-sensitive.
instructions for
translating
the
electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in a
first
direction
to display a second portion of the electronic document, wherein
the
second
portion is different from the first portion, in response to
detecting
the
movement;
The windows may not be completely
visible, but sliding the finger in a particular direction causes the window to
scroll in the opposite direction.
instructions for
displaying an area beyond
an
edge of the electronic document and displaying a
third portion of the
electronic
document, wherein the third portion is smaller
than the first
portion, in
response to the edge of the electronic document being
reached while
translating
the electronic document in the first direction while
the object is
still
detected on or near the touch screen display;
and
As the window scrolls to review the right hand edge,
the window keeps scrolling to the left to reveal an area beyond the electronic
document (i.e., the sequence of desktop windows within which the application
programs run), with icons representing the various windows. Keeping the finger
down, one can move it onto one of the icons.
instructions
for
translating the electronic document in a
second direction until the area
beyond
the edge of the electronic document is no
longer displayed to display a
fourth
portion of the electronic document, wherein
the fourth portion is
different from
the first portion, in response to detecting
that the object is no
longer on or
near the touch screen
display.
When the
finger is lifted off the icon, the window scrolls rightwards to cover the icons,
and also up or down, to move to the selected window of the desktop, with its
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Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
The more widespread use of touch screen devices will surely lead (under
patent law as currently applied) to an impossible thicket of “touch-screen
gesture” patents. Just about every conceivable way in which the display
could react sensibly to a gesture, or to a sequence of gestures, will be subject
matter for some patent, and many such patents will be troll
patents.
Moreover, because the scope of patent claims is determined by
the wording of claims, claims that merely recite ‘computer-implemented
methods’ and computers provided with programs to respond to gestures will
potentially read on numerous different possible scenarios for use of a touch
screen device. It will literally not be possible to use such a device without
infringing on possibly thousands of such patents.
Where such gesture
claims are not tied to any particular application, they surely represent claims
to ‘abstract’, since there would be few if any claim limitations
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Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 01:57 AM EDT |
If the words in the claim are too broad, I could see it being easier to match
prior art to the words. Your 'lessons to be learned' points out that a KDE
desktop on a touch-screen computer matches some of the Apple wording.
I used two-finger zoom in a browser using KDE and a Wacom touch tablet and there
have been multi-touch laptop touch-pads that, I think, pre-date the features on
Apple products.
I note that it is the gesture which is the claimed invention and not the touch
screen. In fact, the patent does not show how the multi-touch screen is made and
this demonstrates that it is not the claimed invention.
I would have thought that any gesture used to control a 'machine' that matched
the claimed invention wording would be prior art.
I seem to remember that many overly broad patents have been redeemed by the
addition of narrowing claims or text. The USPTO need to be wary of the
possibility that the narrowing is not just a way of awarding a patent on an
abstract idea narrowed to a particular PHOSITA's art.
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Regards
Ian Al
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Authored by: macliam on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 05:10 AM EDT |
Claim 19 claims a computing device with a touch screen display, together with
programs providing instructions to carry out five tasks. Those five tasks do
not have to be carried out in sequence. Nor do that have to be used in the same
‘application’. To infringe, the computer simply has to be loaded
with a program to carry out task 1, with a program to carry out task 2, etc.
Any computer with a touch screen display would surely be programmed with
instructions to carry out the first three of these tasks.
To infringe,
the computer has to have a program for carrying out the fourth task, which
happens when the object moves to the boundary of the display.
And the
computer has to have a program for carrying out the fifth task, which happens
when the object is no longer on or near the edge.
There is nothing to
require tasks to be carried out in sequence. Indeed the first three programs
describe what happens all the time as the computer monitors the touch screen and
displays information.
Thus a programmed computer could have a first
application installed, which includes a program for carrying out the fourth
listed task, but not the fifth. And it could also carry a second application,
which includes a program for carry out the fifth listed talk, but not the
fourth.
A computer on which just one of these applications has been
installed may not infringe Claim 19. But a computer on which both applications
have been installed would infringe, even though the two applications may be
totally independent of one another, and may be designed to carry out totally
different tasks.
To emphasize: It is the wording of the claim, not
the details of the embodiments disclosed in the specification, that determines
whether a device or method is infringing, or is prior art.
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Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
I have a question for you. Since you are not
a lawyer and yet are expressing very strong
opinions about the law, perhaps it's time for
you to tell us what your credentials are.
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