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November 30th, 2006

iPod podcast menus, navigation depicted in new Apple patent app

Posted by Russell Shaw @ 5:37 am

Categories: Apple, General, News

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EXCLUSIVE: A new Apple Patent application just published this morning provides insight into how a series of hierarchical menus displayable on an iPod could guide a user to select podcasts for play that are already stored on the device.

The Patent Application is 20060265637, Utilization Of Podcasts on Portable Media Devices. And by PDMs, Apple is, of course, referring to iPod and just perhaps, to successor devices as well.

In order for us to understand how this will work, let's look at some illustrations from this Patent app. 

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Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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Do patent examiners know what "obvious" means?
Do the US patent examiners know what "obvious" means?
Shame again on S.Jobs for falling for his lawyers'
tried-and-slimy make-work strategy.

Disgusting. About as bad as the attempt to
retrieve "-pod" from the common generic wordpile.

Zethy... (Read the rest)
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So what is new about the process?  Patanjali | 11/30/06
You know minus the insulting and lack of understanding  Laff | 11/30/06
Are you saying....  xuniL_z | 11/30/06
Well I would think a decision from the Patent Office  Laff | 11/30/06
Current rules  John Zern | 11/30/06
The pot calling the kettle black????  alphachi | 11/30/06
production does not preclude patenting in the USA  astro_z | 11/30/06
Public domain?  tgeliot | 11/30/06
More Stupid USPTO tricks  rcrowley7 | 11/30/06
It makes no difference, its grade school quality.  Cayble | 11/30/06
True which is the very reason Apple has to do this stuff.  Laff | 12/01/06
Agreed, thats not the point.  Cayble | 12/02/06
Apple has already been screwed by this once...  BitTwiddler | 11/30/06
I just patented...  LinuxHippie | 11/30/06
Disrepute  JulesLt | 11/30/06
I think . . .  CobraA1 | 11/30/06
It's already there in current iPods  m.w.pinter@... | 11/30/06
You might have a point  Len Rooney | 11/30/06
Is this a sure sign of an Apple Fanboi?  Confused by religion | 11/30/06
MS fangirl perhaps?  Mikael_z | 11/30/06
That's no secret  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
No! A lot of people have something against Microsoft  MacGeek2121 | 11/30/06
Ridiculous  mlambert890@... | 11/30/06
To my understanding...  cashaww | 11/30/06
Ridiculous  Len Rooney | 12/01/06
A patent Creative should never have been granted  SkipNewarkDE | 11/30/06
Agreed  Len Rooney | 11/30/06
Lawyers were held back by  John Zern | 11/30/06
We're talking about Apple right now  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
?????  John Zern | 11/30/06
Must have read that wrong  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
I doubt it  cashaww | 11/30/06
This is innovation?  wgg | 11/30/06
This is a cure for cancer?  Tigertank | 11/30/06
Do you mind?  jsargent | 12/01/06
Great minds?  deramin@... | 12/01/06
The real story...  jack@... | 11/30/06
Software patent madness  robbyx | 11/30/06
here is my patent - ribbon menus for IPOD  viveka | 11/30/06
This is a joke or marketing ploy right?  Don't Ask Me | 11/30/06
Infinite loop  bmeacham98@... | 11/30/06
Loop de' Loop  ThumbsUp2 | 11/30/06
Let the fawning begin  carmilevy@... | 11/30/06
Patent won't pass  Narg | 11/30/06
Yeah, new...  cadaver.vitae | 11/30/06
Ridiculous  WillemGrooters | 11/30/06
the patent will pass, since it's very specific...  doctorSpoc | 11/30/06
Making it harder for Zune, etc.  robbyx | 11/30/06
Unless of course everybody else  John Zern | 11/30/06
that's just it...  doctorSpoc | 11/30/06
it will pass because...  NeutralityNow | 11/30/06
This is not an invention  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
they aren't trying to patent a menuing system...  doctorSpoc | 11/30/06
We clearly disagree  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
software patents are definitely allowed...  doctorSpoc | 11/30/06
Didn't say they weren't  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
Obvious  uno@... | 11/30/06
*seem* like it, but is it?  doctorSpoc | 11/30/06
Oh please...  rcrowley7 | 11/30/06
holy out to lunch batman!!  doctorSpoc | 12/01/06
LOL!  bghost | 11/30/06
Russell,  bghost | 11/30/06
I disagree  John L. Ries | 11/30/06
This kind of "Intillectual" property chapps my butt  AMarking | 11/30/06
What will Apple innovate next?  NonZealot | 11/30/06
Considering how Creative screwed them over....  tic swayback | 11/30/06
oh the patent's  etschuetz@... | 11/30/06
My Squeezebox already has heirarchical menu  Tyler_Durden | 11/30/06
I'm going to patent a ham sandwich  jupco | 11/30/06
Too late!  tic swayback | 11/30/06
patented ham / burger ???  tercasa@... | 11/30/06
iPod phone patent  jpercher | 11/30/06
Get used to it  tic swayback | 11/30/06
What a travesty  Rory Norman | 11/30/06
Maybe we need better lawyers?  deramin@... | 12/01/06
What's the value of it?  themacthinker | 11/30/06
All patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 11/30/06
Finger Poking Patent  Ole Man | 11/30/06
Good proof for my opinion...  hdn.de | 12/01/06
Supreme Court  deramin@... | 12/01/06
Do patent examiners know what "obvious" means?  dzethmayr@... | 12/08/06

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