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US Patent Application Review Series

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4th Week of May 2010 Issue

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A few words from the editor

A few words from the editor

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- Issac Newton

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Structure of this review

The Table of Contents is created based onalphabetical order of IPC. The patent applicationsare also sorted by alphabetical order of IPC. A briefdescription of each IPC is shown. We find that the IPCdescription could help deciphering the abstract of anpatent application. If a patent application belongs tomultiple IPC, the patent application will only be shownunder the section of first IPC.

For each patent application, the following informationwill be shown:

1. App. No. patent application no. it is uniqueto each patent application.

2. Assignee this is owner of the patentapplication. If there is no assignee beingspecified, either the inventor of the patentapplication own the patent application or theowner of the patent application did not recordsuch information when the patent applicationwas filed.

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4. Abstract this is the abstract of the patentapplication. There are rules on how an abstractshould be drafted. Most patent attorneys like tohave the abstract based on the first claim of thepatent application.

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application claiming the priority of the firstapplication.

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7. Pub. Date publishing date it is the date of thepatent application published by US. Usually, it isabout 18 months after the application date.

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IPC Catchword Index is an alphabetical sorted list ofcatchwords of the IPC appeared in the review.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents 3

G06 - Electric digital data processing 4G06F 17/30 - Information retrieval . . . . . . 4G06Q 30/00 - Commerce, e.g. marketing,

shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce 5

H04 - Pictorial communication, e.g. television 5H04N 07/173 - with two-way working,

e.g. subscriber sending a programme

selection signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5H04R 01/10 - Earpieces . . . . . . . . . . . . 6H04R 03/00 - Circuits for transducers . . . . 6

Patent Index 8

IPC Catchword Index 9



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G06F 17/30

G06F 17/30: Electric digital data processing Digital computing ordata processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specificfunctions Information retrieval

App. No. 20100131567 Assignee Apple Inc.

Title Tagging media assets, locations, and advertisements

Abstract An accessory communicates with a PMD to store tags associated with broadcasts in a filemaintained in a storage medium of the accessory. In one embodiment, the accessory sendsa command to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD. Once opened, thetag file is held open by the PMD until the accessory closes it (or disconnects), allowing multipletags to be written to one file. Each time the user requests a new tag, the accessory generatesa tag containing information descriptive of the broadcast material (e.g., song title, artist, radiostation identifier, time of tagging, etc.) and writes the tag to the tag file using a write command tothe PMD.

Pri. Date 20081126 App. Date 20100126 Pub. Date 20100527

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220100131567%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100131567&RS=DN/20100131567http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220100131567%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100131567&RS=DN/20100131567


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H04N 07/173

G06Q 30/00: Data processing systems or methods, specially adaptedfor administrative, commercial, financial, managerial, supervisory orforecasting purposes Commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing,auctions or e-commerce

Patent applications also belong to this classification and have been already shown:

20100131567 page 4

H04N 07/173: Pictorial communication, e.g. television Televisionsystems Secrecy systems with two-way working, e.g. subscribersending a programme selection signal

App. No. 20100132005 Assignee Apple Inc.

Title Recapping media content

Abstract A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memorythat receives instructions from the one or more processors according to a clock operating at afrequency, one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to open a media file orreceive a media broadcast that may be stored locally or remotely; play the content of the mediafile or media broadcast at a default speed; and control the play of the content with control featuressuch as a feature for recapping earlier media content.




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H04R 03/00

H04R 01/10: Loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or likeacoustic electromechanical transducers Details of transducers Earpieces

App. No. 20100128887 Assignee Apple Inc.Title Detecting the repositioning of an earphone using a microphone and associated action

Abstract A system detects the repositioning of an earphone that is worn by a user, and changes anoperation mode of a host coupled to the earphone. Within the earphone is a pressure transducerthat detects a pressure change caused by the repositioning of the earphone. A signalingmechanism sends a repositioning detection signal to the host in response to a signal from thepressure transducer indicating the detection of the pressure change.




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H04R 03/00

H04R 03/00: Loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or likeacoustic electromechanical transducers Circuits for transducers

App. No. 20100128892 Assignee APPLE INC.

Title Stabilizing directional audio input from a moving microphone array

Abstract A device includes a microphone array fixed to the device. A signal processor produces an audiooutput using audio beamforming with input from the microphone array. The signal processoraims the beamforming in a selected direction. An orientation sensorx2014;such as a compass,an accelerometer, or an inertial sensorx2014;is coupled to the signal processor. The orientationsensor detects a change in the orientation of the microphone array and provides an orientationsignal to the signal processor for adjusting the aim of the beamforming to maintain the selecteddirection. The device may include a camera that captures an image. An image processor mayidentify an audio source in the image and provide a signal adjusting the selected direction to followthe audio source. The image processor may receive the orientation signal and adjust the imagefor changes in the orientation of the camera before tracking movement of the audio source.




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Patent Index

Patent Index

Patent Application Page Patent Application Page Patent Application Page20100128887 6 20100128892 7 20100131567 420100132005 5



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IPC Catchword Index

IPC Catchword Index

Catch Word IPC PageCOMPILING statistics G06 4COMPUTER(S) G06 4DATA processing G06 4EAR(S) transducers for electro-mechanical earpieces H04R 01/10 6EQUATIONS solving EQUATIONS G06 4FUNCTIONS evaluating FUNCTIONS G06 4INFORMATION electric digital computers for INFORMATION retrieval G06F 17/30 4


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