And the fact that it was in that bucket, says nothing about validity of the patent, it's actual worth in the real world, or anything at all. Just that Apple shelled out cash to IV, and obtained a license to all the stuff in their bucket at the time.
Claim 24: 24. The system of claim 1 wherein the two-way local interactions comprise a transaction for sale of a product or a service contract for the commodity.
I'm guessing that would be the claim in question.
As for which apps apple needs to pay for? I'd guess the app store one, and the itunes one at a minimum.
It's also important to read that is happening before each reduction. The first is the biggest.
"The first reduction will follow claim construction". This means all 129 claims go to the Markman hearing, where the actual meaning of the claims is nailed down. quite often after that step, it's obvious that some of the claims are crap anyways, and others are more likely to win. it's actually not that unheard of for things to just stop at that point, and head to a negotiation phase because infringement is obvious, or to dismiss things, cause it's obvious that there is no infringement.
I've got an iPad - 1st gen, wifi only. When I'm connected via WiFi, the system does its best to figure out where I am from my ip address, and pulls down a wack of ssid -> location mappings. Later, when driving around with the iPad, with WiFi turned on, and auto connect turned off, I can see my location (admittedly with a fairly large uncertainty circle around it) being updated as I drive around. This cached data makes this trick possible. On an iPhone, you get the same thing - it has to use GPS, WiFi, or cell towers to sort out where you are. Its going to receive the cell tower ids anyways, so if it has the tower ids cached with their locations, it can save on battery life. GPS is a relatively expensive operation (from a battery perspective), so being able to use info the phones needs to operate anyways is often good enough for the apps that are requesting location data.
Um - I've looked at spark plugs. They start out nice and shiny, but get gummed up rather quickly. Are the lasers going to need to be strong enough to burn through the carbon buildup as well as igniting diesel/gasoline?
While obviously not slashdot readers, anyone with teenaged kids can easily find themselves in that type of position - while they might not each watch a movie per day, when you take a couple kids watching a different movie each every few days, or watching different tv shows, in addition to the usage that the parents are using.
Heck, my 5 and 7 year old don't watch the same shows - the ones the 5 year old likes are too babyish for the 7 year old, and the ones the 7 year likes are too scary for the 5 year old. Then add in streaming stuff for us to watch...
You can very rapidly hit the required number of viewing hours, if you remember that you don't all have to be locked in a single room, watching the same stuff all the time.
Read in the tub? What's wrong with using an e-reader to do that? you need one of these: http://www.loksak.com/ They come in different sizes, from iphone up to ipad/kindle. Great for the beach too - for keeping sand out of stuff.
Yes, that's a quote from Marooned in Real-time (Vinge), but I think it applies perfectly well to this situation. Just 'cause a company says it will not be evil, doesn't mean it can't squash you like a bug.
Nope. LG washing machines use this to report problems to the service counter. You dial a number, hold the phone to the washing machine, and it hisses to the other end...
Aren't impact craters round? I thought that was one of the neat things about them - they are always round, regardless of speed/angle of impact. (you can play with this with a baking pan full of flour, and lob things at it).
This looks more like a quarry to me.
Trust me - we've done tests. You want steel wool. Preferably an inch or so thick. You can test this out quite easily, by wrapping your phone in tinfoil, and then calling it. when it rings, you know that's not enough.
Steel wool, then tinfoil on the outside, will do just fine.
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And the fact that it was in that bucket, says nothing about validity of the patent, it's actual worth in the real world, or anything at all. Just that Apple shelled out cash to IV, and obtained a license to all the stuff in their bucket at the time.
Claim 24: 24. The system of claim 1 wherein the two-way local interactions comprise a transaction for sale of a product or a service contract for the commodity. I'm guessing that would be the claim in question. As for which apps apple needs to pay for? I'd guess the app store one, and the itunes one at a minimum.
It's called a handgun. Diagnosis? Lead Poisoning. Every time.
Mod Judge up.
It's also important to read that is happening before each reduction. The first is the biggest. "The first reduction will follow claim construction". This means all 129 claims go to the Markman hearing, where the actual meaning of the claims is nailed down. quite often after that step, it's obvious that some of the claims are crap anyways, and others are more likely to win. it's actually not that unheard of for things to just stop at that point, and head to a negotiation phase because infringement is obvious, or to dismiss things, cause it's obvious that there is no infringement.
I've got an iPad - 1st gen, wifi only. When I'm connected via WiFi, the system does its best to figure out where I am from my ip address, and pulls down a wack of ssid -> location mappings. Later, when driving around with the iPad, with WiFi turned on, and auto connect turned off, I can see my location (admittedly with a fairly large uncertainty circle around it) being updated as I drive around. This cached data makes this trick possible. On an iPhone, you get the same thing - it has to use GPS, WiFi, or cell towers to sort out where you are. Its going to receive the cell tower ids anyways, so if it has the tower ids cached with their locations, it can save on battery life. GPS is a relatively expensive operation (from a battery perspective), so being able to use info the phones needs to operate anyways is often good enough for the apps that are requesting location data.
I just realized that we're planning on arming our self parking, navigation aware vehicles with burning lasers. I thought Skynet day was yesterday...
Um - I've looked at spark plugs. They start out nice and shiny, but get gummed up rather quickly. Are the lasers going to need to be strong enough to burn through the carbon buildup as well as igniting diesel/gasoline?
While obviously not slashdot readers, anyone with teenaged kids can easily find themselves in that type of position - while they might not each watch a movie per day, when you take a couple kids watching a different movie each every few days, or watching different tv shows, in addition to the usage that the parents are using. Heck, my 5 and 7 year old don't watch the same shows - the ones the 5 year old likes are too babyish for the 7 year old, and the ones the 7 year likes are too scary for the 5 year old. Then add in streaming stuff for us to watch... You can very rapidly hit the required number of viewing hours, if you remember that you don't all have to be locked in a single room, watching the same stuff all the time.
I'm a consultant in telecom. I see this every day. I'm convinced that any project, no matter how big can be done by 6 people.
I guess you don't have any kids then. (What am I saying. This is slashdot.)
I guess you're not a fan of Space: 1999 then.
Can't we just store it somewhere further away? Where we don't have to look at it? Like the back side of the moon?
We're not all gone yet, but there is little left. The patent group, NBS (which mostly does lan/it support), and the shell of the M&A guys.
Read in the tub? What's wrong with using an e-reader to do that? you need one of these: http://www.loksak.com/ They come in different sizes, from iphone up to ipad/kindle. Great for the beach too - for keeping sand out of stuff.
Yes, that's a quote from Marooned in Real-time (Vinge), but I think it applies perfectly well to this situation. Just 'cause a company says it will not be evil, doesn't mean it can't squash you like a bug.
Nope. LG washing machines use this to report problems to the service counter. You dial a number, hold the phone to the washing machine, and it hisses to the other end...
Aren't impact craters round? I thought that was one of the neat things about them - they are always round, regardless of speed/angle of impact. (you can play with this with a baking pan full of flour, and lob things at it). This looks more like a quarry to me.
So - we finally find out what all those AOL CD's mailed out were really for. Beam weaponry components.
Trust me - we've done tests. You want steel wool. Preferably an inch or so thick. You can test this out quite easily, by wrapping your phone in tinfoil, and then calling it. when it rings, you know that's not enough. Steel wool, then tinfoil on the outside, will do just fine.