Timeline for Apple US Patent 8,528,072 - Method, apparatus and system for access mode control of a device
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 18:10 | comment | added | Daniel | of all the things patented, this one doesn't seem that braud, in fact it seems oddly specific. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 2:45 | comment | added | James Khoury | Sounds more like "Regular user" access and an "Admin" access. the terms used are "First unlocked mode" and "Second unlocked mode". Not two different users. | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | geeksweep | I am fine with getting patents on implementations of how to do X, Y and Z but general patents on an "idea" in software is ridiculous. It doesn't sound like they have a specific implementation in mind on how to perform some operation other than using "gestures". Maybe this is where I am shortsighted and really don't understand what they want to do. | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 3:09 | comment | added | George White♦ | To get around this claim make a system where both gestures lead you a state that share authorization to run a common application. They both can display the time and date, for example. Not mutually exclusive sets of apps so your system doesn't infringe if you take the claim literally! If you think something is a silly claim, there is usually a silly way around it. | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 2:59 | comment | added | George White♦ | The requirement in US law to get a patent are three: useful, novel and non-obvious. No "earth shattering break through" requirement. Adding that would be good but would be way way more subjective than the horribly subjective obviousness and many things are only breakthroughs after the impact is felt, not at the time of invention. | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 2:37 | comment | added | geeksweep | as far as I know the desktop has been doing that. It knows who can and cannot have access to certain applications based on who signed in. we have seen different kinds of access before based on sudo or user account control. Whatever the "gesture" means it is evidently from the reading, supposed to give access to the system...that is the input mechanism might be unique here but no different than a password or security token and certainly not innovative. | |
| Sep 4, 2013 at 21:28 | comment | added | George White♦ | If "gesture" can mean moving your fingers in a pattern on a keyboard that produces a user name and a password then partly yes. I think the application is fairly clear what it means by a gesture and typing a password is probably not a gesture. It would also require a system that intentionally had a 100% mutually exclusive set of applications between two user accounts. | |
| Sep 4, 2013 at 18:14 | comment | added | geeksweep | but desktops have already been doing what they describe for ages yes? | |
| Sep 4, 2013 at 17:26 | history | answered | George White♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |