Among other things, two things have been primarily keeping folks at Apple busy for the last few months. One is Innovation and the other is Litigation. The lawsuits filed against HTC have generated a lot of interest and many experts in the domain have started speculating about Apple's strategy in the coming few months. In the meanwhile, Apple has ensured that its inventors have been busy doing what they do the best - getting more patents!
Apple was granted a total of 12 patents and 2 design patents on July 19, 2011. The list of patents have been provided below:
US7,984,385: Regular sampling and presentation of continuous media stream US7,984,384: Web view layer for accessing user interface elements US7,984,317: Hardware-based power management of functional blocks US7,984,065: Portable browsing interface for information retrieval US7,983,307: Communication apparatus and communication method US7,983,300: Method and apparatus for measuring bandwidth US7,982,548: Resonant oscillator with oscillation-startup circuitry
The above list includes a total of 5 continuation, one divisional, and one continuation-in-part.
The two design patents are:
D641,762: Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
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