Excellent effort. I continue to find it astounding that while certain technologies and methodologies have been around as common usage since years and decades, merely the introduction of smaller/ wireless devices / new flavors of networks, but using the same old approaches, described with the right level of obfuscation and etc, etc. etc,, becomes the basic for patent applications and even approvals.
cheers Sanjay On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Anguel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed some recent US & world patent applications from Apple, e.g.: > > US 2010/0233961 A1: ACCESSORY AND MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE > COMMUNICATION USING AN APPLICATION PROTOCOL > http://www.google.com/patents/US20100233961 > > US 20100235454 A1: APPLICATION COMMUNICATION WITH EXTERNAL ACCESSORIES > http://www.google.com/patents/US20100235454 > > WO 002010107660 A1: ACCESSORY AND MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE > COMMUNICATION USING AN APPLICATION COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL > > http://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=menu&content=treffer&action=bibdat&docid=WO002010107660A1 > > I am not a patent attorney but I suspect that if these patent > applications become patents they could have a large impact on basic > device to device communication used by any smartphone. IMHO they cover > very obvious things but could stop for example Android Open Accessory > development (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html). > > My intention is to bring these patent applications to the attention of > Google's patent attorneys. I know that preventing a patent from being > issued is much easier than trying to stop it later. By posting this > into this forum I hope that this can be forwarded to Google's experts. > > Best regards, > Anguel > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
