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Apple Granted Six New Patents

macnn.com — On September 12, the US Patent & Trademark Office published six of Apple's newly granted patents which included the following: a Method and apparatus for saving power in pipelined processors, Method and apparatus for implementing a sleep proxy for services on a network, Single-channel convolution in a vector processing computer system...

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  • zerg445, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Rendering translucent layers in a display system"

    Can you say Leopard?
    • crazycracker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10no but i can say XGL
    • jakebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11you can't say Leopard?

      Dictionary.com
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5"no but i can say XGL"

      In Leopard, however, you don't have to install a single driver or edit a single configuration file. And it works right out of the box. And it's finalized.
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9can you say "they shouldn't have recieved a patent on this"? It's been around forever in many windows based applications... If anyone should have gotten a patent on that it probably should have been Stardock, Inc. However, even THEY shouldn't have gotten a patent... our patent system is BROKEN... and stifles innovation... it needs to be scrapped.
    • flag564, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Can you say fanboys desperate to try to hide the lackluster product dump today?

    • khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@i440

      Can you say Looking Glass Linux? Yea, that's what I thought. All of that out of the box by default on install. Nothing new here, move along. Apple may have done it first, but Linux did it first for a non-controlled hardware set. On that particular plane alone, Apple can't claim *****. Linux can work across many different configurable and adjustable sets of hardware - with Apple, all you get is vendor lock, and a ***** of logic board upgrade headaches everytime you want to upgrade to a new version of the OS.

      Before you try flaming me, I worked for Apple's laptop repair depot here in Memphis. Lemme tell you - it's a sad state of affairs there, from outright Apple-printed lies (To quote: "All work is done by Apple-Certified technicians,") to pure incompetence in just resetting NVRAM to get a clean booting environment so one can install some different version of OSX on a laptop that can't even support the new version, thus requiring a damned logic board upgrade.

      I've been on the inside, Apple can't even keep it's own ***** straight.

      Digg down all you want. I know better and I'm not changing my stance.
    • Balanced, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it's truly a bad patent, fight it.

      However, keep this in mind, by my limited (I am not a lawyer) understanding, patents are intended to cover specific implementations. That means that if you can achieve the same or better results by using a noticeably different technique, you're free to do so.
    • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FYI (for you guys on the anti patent office warpath): These are abstracts, not the actual claims from the patent. What they have gotten a patent on could be much more specific, for instance: check claim 1 of the first invention listed: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=7107471.PN.&OS=PN/7107471&RS=PN/7107471

      Have you seen that somewhere before (the whole claim)?
  • sam10685, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you see apple getting all these new patents but they're not really implementing them.
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cash cows... You do see apple suing.
    • ImmortalLobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats becuase somebody else has already implemented them, from that list of patents, I saw

      Sleep state of a CPU, or speedstep or CnQ pick your weapon
      WOL (Wake on Lan) there patent is very simlar sounding to that concept
      Multi-core Vector CPU - Cell
      A motherboard ...inside a monitor, ok, iMac was fisrt, but what about the vaios, laptops might also fall in that...
      DVI cables, or HDMI, logic behind them
      Semi tranparent windows such as Vista, or linux, those came first.

      All I see from this is apple trying to send their newly found legal team on a conquest of cheap easy money....so much for ethics apple....





  • Curufir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Level of screwed up...

    5.0 on the "You didn't invent this" scale.
  • haooken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://www.tomasbecklin.com/hello/2/894/1024/iProduct.jpg
  • nrecob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2*YAWN*
  • joel8x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OT - I just tried to explain to my wife why I'm smiling over all of the Apple stories being put up today. I then told her about my attempt at sarcasm:

    http://digg.com/apple/APPLE_APPLE_APPLE_APPLE_APPLE_APPLE#c3026699

    There is no way to explain tech humor to a woman without looking utterly pathetic. Keep up with the Apple stories people!

    BTW this story is smack out of this: http://digg.com/apple/The_Apple_Product_Cycle_4
  • SmokedL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A quick reading suggests that in the context of pipelined processors and vector processing computer systems Apple has been granted a twenty year monopoly on:

    Power management
    Proxy objects
    Using multiple CPUs to perform tasks
    Integrating an entire computer in a single box using plugable components.

    And in any context:
    Translucent windows

    When will the madness end?
    • khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I find it funny they got granted a 20-year monopoly on power management on a pipelined processor.

      Even a ***** microwave today has that feature built-in. Apple's absolutely re-*****-tarded. Microwaves have had power management features (and they have a pipelined processor, as does most any logic circuit that deals with timing) since the 90's, and Apple's OSX has not. Yes, Apple is 100% moronic here.

      I'm near the point where I want to EMP every corporate office in this country and send them back to the stone-age for their very stupidity.
    • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Like I was saying above, Apple did not get a patent on "Power Management." What they got a patent on is a page and a half claim, of which every single element must be contained in order to have a case of patent infringement.

      Seriously, google "patent" followed by the patent number. Any granted patent is public domain and accessible online. It's the claims that matter, not the title or the abstract.
  • eledu81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've just installed in windows and my music sounds bad.. all pitched ..winamp sounds as usual so it is itunes.. also quicktime it is more heave and slow.. so it is crap for windows
  • flyingfred0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Although not explicitly mentioned in the text of the patent, # 7,107,442 is based on section 17 of the MulticastDNS draft (which is one part of Bonjour, or Rendezvous, or whatever you want to call it). Of course the same guy (Stuart Cheshire) is responsible for both.

    The patent:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+7107442

    MulticastDNS:
    http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt

    Just some additional info in case anyone's interested.
  • ImmortalLobster, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Apple ought to just patent the word "patent" and be done with it! Put it right next to their god damned "pod" patent...these are all stupid!
    • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You're an idiot.
    • ImmortalLobster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Good to know, idiots sometimes call smart people idiots ;)
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