{"id":469861,"date":"2010-03-24T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/the-smartphone-patent-wars-continue\/14616\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:12:51","slug":"the-smartphone-patent-wars-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/469861","title":{"rendered":"The smartphone patent wars continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/smartphone-patent.jpg\" alt=\"Method and apparatus for controlling a computer system\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20100324\/motion-control-a-powder-keg-in-the-mobile-patent-war\/\" >AllThingsDigital<\/a> brings news of yet another patent issued for technology we&#8217;ve been using for years. The patent, <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=7,679,604.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/7,679,604&amp;RS=PN\/7,679,604\" >Method and apparatus for controlling a computer system<\/a>, which was filed in June 2006 and granted last week, is shockingly broad &#8211; essentially describing any means of using an accelerometer to control a computer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/accelerometer\/\" rel=\"tag\">Accelerometer<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/motion+sensor\/\" rel=\"tag\">Motion sensor<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/patent\/\" rel=\"tag\">Patent<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/smartphone\/\" rel=\"tag\">Smartphone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/4366\/\"><br \/>\nMonsanto files patent for new invention: the pig<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/ibm-patent-bionic-body-armor\/11002\/\">IBM patents bullet-dodging technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/4963\/\">The 120th birthday of the automobile &#8211; we&#8217;ve come a long way, baby!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/touch-screen-smartphone-with-flip-qwerty-keyboard\/14181\/\"> NewCon prototype touch Smartphone with flip QWERTY keyboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/6409\/\">Patent granted for walking on water invention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/3806\/\">The sideways bike<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xs-vx43eZt8yC00YaTIoXoRFZtE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xs-vx43eZt8yC00YaTIoXoRFZtE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xs-vx43eZt8yC00YaTIoXoRFZtE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xs-vx43eZt8yC00YaTIoXoRFZtE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=hLEjt2fWpBU:KYau__559UU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine\/~4\/hLEjt2fWpBU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AllThingsDigital brings news of yet another patent issued for technology we&#8217;ve been using for years. The patent, Method and apparatus for controlling a computer system, which was filed in June 2006 and granted last week, is shockingly broad &#8211; essentially describing any means of using an accelerometer to control a computer&#8230; Tags: Accelerometer, Motion sensor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}