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by bestcoder69 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:49PM
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The patents that they showcased when I was there were so funny. Truly quantity over quality.
My favorite was a patent for a mobile phone password input box. The innovation was that as you type your password, your phone's rotation (I think it was just 4 possible rotations) was recorded per-character as you typed. So hunter2 might be encoded as "h-0° u-90° n-270°..." etc.
I love imagining Apple starting to develop this for iPhones until one of their lawyers delivers the bad news.
My favorite was a patent for a mobile phone password input box. The innovation was that as you type your password, your phone's rotation (I think it was just 4 possible rotations) was recorded per-character as you typed. So hunter2 might be encoded as "h-0° u-90° n-270°..." etc.
I love imagining Apple starting to develop this for iPhones until one of their lawyers delivers the bad news.