2011-07-19 Newly Issued Apple Patents

 

	PAT. NO.		Title
1	D641,762		Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof
2	D641,693		Electronic device
3	7,984,385		Regular sampling and presentation of continuous media stream
4	7,984,384		Web view layer for accessing user interface elements
5	7,984,377		Cascaded display of video media
6	7,984,338		Program counter (PC) trace
7	7,984,320		Silent time tampering detection
8	7,984,317		Hardware-based power management of functional blocks
9	7,984,274		Partial load/store forward prediction
10	7,984,065		Portable browsing interface for information retrieval
11	7,983,307		Communication apparatus and communication method
12	7,983,300		Method and apparatus for measuring bandwidth
13	7,982,796		Track for improved video compression
14	7,982,548		Resonant oscillator with oscillation-startup circuitry

 

Of Note

Jony Ive is listed as an inventor on D641,693.

The '384 is a fairly broad patent on the display of a dashboard comprising a borderless web page:

 

7,984,384

Web view layer for accessing user interface elements

1. In a computer system including a display screen comprising an area displaying a desktop user interface, a computer-implemented method for presenting a dashboard layer on the display screen, the method comprising:

• responsive to a trigger event, displaying the dashboard layer in the area displaying the desktop user interface, 
  • the dashboard layer comprising a web view,
  • the display of the dashboard layer providing access to a group of desktop widgets rendered within the web view of the dashboard layer; and for each of the desktop widgets from the group,
• displaying in the dashboard layer a borderless web page that represents the desktop widget in the web view of the dashboard layer.

The '065 relates to document retrieval based on user-constructed hierarchies:

7,984,065

Portable browsing interface for information retrieval

 

1. An information retrieval system, comprising:

• a plurality of files stored in memory, each defining a different hierarchical relationship of terms describing an organizational framework for information;
• a user interface that permits a user to select a level within each of at least two of the different hierarchical relationships;
• a search query generator responsive to the selection of the level within each of the at least two different hierarchical relationships to construct a search query that is based upon terms associated with each of the selected levels, and to provide the query to a search engine to locate documents in a source of information which correspond to the search query; and
• a display that displays information about the located documents to the user.

 

Selected Drawings

 

D641,762: