After the long court battle ended with Apple's victory over Samsung, in which the judge ruled that Samsung pay Apple $ 930 million for violating these patents, we thought that we would rest from these cases, but we were surprised by a second round that appeared in the court papers in which Apple complained that Samsung had violated more patents The invention. We read the news about this issue and what happens in it daily, but have you ever thought about knowing what things and patents that Apple accuses Samsung of stealing ?! In this article we will review it for you.

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Important clarification

This article is not an accusation from us to Samsung of theft, as these matters that are concerned with its consideration and judgment are the courts, but in the coming months we will talk a lot about this matter. It is strange that you find yourself talking dozens of times about an issue and adopting a party’s point of view, but you do not know what the issue is in the first place, and what does Apple accuse Samsung of stealing ?!

The case briefly has 5 patents, which are as follows:

Patent No. 5,946,647 (System and method for performing work on a structure in a computer to generate data):

This patent makes it so that the iOS system recognizes a set of specific phrases while writing texts, whether in text messages or e-mail, and automatically transfers them to a link without user intervention, such as converting words such as “next Sunday” or “Friday” or “8 pm” to a link as soon as Clicking on it creates an event in the calendar, which is a very useful feature when someone sends an appointment for a meeting or something else.

Patent No. 6,847,959 (Universal Interface for Information Retrieval in a Computer System, which is the basis for global searches):

In short, it is the feature that when you start writing, the iOS system searches the device and offers you to search the Internet at the same time. For example, when you search in the search bar on iPhone for "iPhone Islam", the search bar during your search brings all the data related to IPhone Islam as their application and all the e-mails received from them and others, as well as giving you the option to search the Internet or the Wikipedia encyclopedia.

Patent No. 7,761,414 (data synchronization between devices):

This patent can be described as making the application interact with the user at the same time that it is synchronizing data in the background, for example, you can write a note while the device updates the application in i-Cloud, and immediately what you wrote appears on your other devices that have the same i-cloud account.

We would like to point out that this patent does not mean that Apple invented the synchronization of data between devices, as it existed long before the invention of i-Cloud, but this patent is a specific approach during the synchronization process that makes the data talk instantly during the work of the user and this is Apple's method in technology as it is Reinvent inventions to make them accessible to people who have no experience in technology, in an easy and simple way that often does not require their intervention.

Patent No. 8,046,721 (unlocking the device by making gestures on the lock screen image):

It is very clear and everyone knows it, which is the process of moving from the lock screen to the user interface of the device quickly by swiping on the screen image, which is the technology that we see simple and we do not think about its work, but it is of great benefit that we will know if we lose it, it protects the device from opening itself easily while it is in your pocket and starts In doing random things because of the pressures that occur to him.

Patent No. 8,074,172 (Method, System and Graphical User Interface for Submitting Word Suggestions):

Also an easy patent that everyone knows as "automatic word correction" ... Everyone will say that Apple did not invent prediction and correct the wrong words, it is a feature that has existed for a very long time, yes, this is completely correct words, but what Apple did is to make the word correction feature terribly easy for the user when we write A wrong word and the suggestion to correct it appears to us, and we wanted to accept this correction, so we do not have to press the proposed word, but we continue to write, and when we press the spacebar, the suggestion will be accepted and replaced in place of the wrong word ... A simple patent in its form is great in its effect as it makes writing more rapid and productive for the user instead From standing at each word and clicking on the suggested word, which may cause the cursor to be lost and delayed in writing.

The five patents that we mentioned are what the courts will do in the coming period, and it is remarkable in the matter that Samsung violates one of them, which is (unlocking the device by making gestures on the lock screen image) and the rest comes with the Android system and this is the key to Samsung defense, which you want for it To make Google interfere in the trials as Samsung is going with Android, which uses the remaining four patents in all devices. Most of us know that Apple is suing the whole globe, but we rarely see direct cases between Google and Apple.

Do you think that Apple is right in accusing it? And if Apple believes that patents are really infringed, why do you think that Apple has decided to sue Samsung only for violating it, without the rest of the companies?

Source | 9To5Mac

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