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JBQ On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Streets Of Boston<[email protected]> wrote: > > Why not? > What is the legal reason to forbid people who are not involved in the > patent, using only publicly available info (rumour), from discussing > (specific) patents on a public forum? > > On Jul 14, 12:42 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> -Do you have a quote for this? (if yes, please send it to me in private). >> >> -Please don't discuss specific patents on this list (or any other >> official Android list). Thanks. >> >> JBQ >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Anton Melser<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I seem to remember Google announcing they wouldn't develop multi-touch >> > capabilities as Apple have patents on "the technology". Sure, it >> > existed many years before Apple "invented" it, but that has never >> > stopped large corps from threatening to sue for patents acquired >> > illegally. I'd forget about it. >> > Cheers >> > Anton >> >> > 2009/7/14 MotoVB <[email protected]>: >> >> >> Dear all: >> >> We are developing the multitouch framework for android system. Our >> >> assumption is not to modify the android framework as far as possible. >> >> So we will modify the multitouch driver and provide a >> >> MultitouchAdapter.java to let the user program can listen some events, >> >> like Zoom and Rotate! And the user program also can receive the >> >> multitouch pointers to recogine the other gestures. >> >> >> The other work is to let the existing applicatons can support >> >> multitouch gesture, like zoom event, without compling again. The >> >> approach is to translate the Pointer Event to the Keyboard Event at >> >> the driver layer because the user level program can't inject the >> >> KeyEvent to other application due to security. For example, in the >> >> synaptics driver, when detecting the zoom gesture, it will send the >> >> KeyEvent to the keyboard device driver (/dev/input/event1). After the >> >> browser receive the Menu+I Key combination, it will zoom in. >> >> >> Could anybody give us some suggestion? If our work is complete, >> >> anyone needs it? >> >> We are afraid that the android team do the same thing now. Does >> >> anyone know whether the official android team add the multitouch >> >> support to android framework? >> >> > -- >> > echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc >> > This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ... >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru >> Android Engineer, Google. >> >> Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private >> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further >> warning.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
