Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text

Posted by AndyBaker on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:03AM
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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who... by djpowell on Thursday March 27, 2014 @09:08AM (#7480092)

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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who... by mbrameld on Thursday March 27, 2014 @09:04AM (#7480076)

I'm almost 100% sure a guy I know from another web site wrote an iPhone app that did this shortly after the iPhone was first released.

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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who... by matthewdavis on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:10PM (#7481779)

I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -

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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who... by cordite on Thursday March 27, 2014 @09:09AM (#7480098)

I'm sure there's plenty of prior art--but the PTO wouldn't know that.

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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who... by work_account_2 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:52AM (#7480000)

Well, the patent doesn't help anyone but Apple, actually.

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