[IxDA Discuss] Apple's Gesture Dictionary [PATENT]

[Morten Hjerde]

> This could gain better adoption as an open
> standard, not a intellectual property stake in the ground.
>


Guys and gals, please understand: This is a BAD THING.

There is no intellectual property stake in the ground here. Apple has not
done any inventing in the area of gestures and touchscreens, so they can not
claim any patent there. The Apple patent lawyers tries to be clever and
circumvent that by claiming a patent for a "dictionary application" that
cover all of the following and a lot more:

A computer or phone providing feedback when recognising a pattern - be it
audible or visual etc.
A computer or phone showing a pattern to the user - basically any mechanism
for learning a pattern from the computer itself.

As far as I understand, if this patent is granted, any form of feedback from
recognizing a pattern could be said to be in violation of the patent.

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Morten Hjerde
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