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#286272 - 01/09/2006 08:49 Apple's user interface
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Hugo - perhaps you can help Apple get sorted with interfaces:-)

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/01/apple_settles_itunes_patent_spat/
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#286273 - 01/09/2006 09:51 Re: Apple's user interface [Re: frog51]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Argh !

Software patents, or at the very least the granting of obvious ones is just so dumb.

Here is the patent in question:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse...p;RS=PN/5864868
It ammounts to:

- a database contain track names, composers etc
- a computer interface to filter and select tracks
- communicating with a "player piano" to play/pause the selected track
- a computer interface for displaying the currently playing track

It really doesn't get much more obvious an "invention" does it ?

In this case the invention really wasn't even anything to do with iTunes anyway, the patent is talking about a system for controlling a MIDI instrument for playing back music in bars, hotels etc

Edit: fixed URL - wfaulk
Edit again: or not. found a replacement URL


Edited by wfaulk (01/09/2006 13:58)
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#286274 - 19/09/2006 06:06 Re: Apple's user interface [Re: andy]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
Contois claims Apple employees saw their UI at a tradeshow. Well, it so happens I have graphics and layouts and documentation for a program I designed between 1990 and 1994 that I shopped around the internet from 92-94 looking for a programmer to work with. Except for the player piano crap it predates the other claims of that patent.

I've been meaning to post screen shots up and I suppose I will once I have a bit more free time.
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