2012-01-17 Newly Issued Apple Patents

	PAT. NO.		Title
1	D652,428		Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D652,426		Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	8,099,665		Organizing and sorting media menu items
4	8,099,591		Techniques and graphical user interfaces for categorical shuffle
5	8,099,536		Communication between an accessory and a media player with general and accessory lingoes
6	8,099,528		Data filtering using central DMA mechanism
7	8,099,476		Updatable real-time or near real-time streaming
8	8,099,473		Variant streams for real-time or near real-time streaming
9	8,099,392		Electronic backup of applications
10	8,099,332		User interface for application management for a mobile device
11	8,099,258		Smart garment
12	8,099,252		Self-test power management unit
13	8,099,091		Method to control configuration change times in a wireless device
14	8,099,079		Method and system for distributing data to mobile devices
15	8,098,838		Detecting the repositioning of an earphone using a microphone and associated action
16	8,098,534		Integrated circuit with separate supply voltage for memory that is different from logic circuit supply voltage
17	8,098,262		Arbitrary fractional pixel movement
18	8,098,261		Pillarboxing correction
19	8,098,256		Video acquisition with integrated GPU processing
20	8,098,250		Adaptive and dynamic text filtering
21	8,098,233		Wide touchpad on a portable computer
22	8,097,956		Flexible packaging for chip-on-chip and package-on-package technologies

Of Note

"Smart Garment":Track clothing usage and wear with an iPhone?

1. A method, comprising:

• electronically pairing a garment sensor and a garment by way of a first bi-directional communication link, 
  • wherein the garment sensor is physically affixed to the garment;
• tracking garment usage and detecting wear patterns involving the garment using the garment sensor;
• forming a second bi-directional communication link between the garment sensor and an external database;
• sending the tracked garment usage and detected wear patterns to the external database;
• receiving expected useful lifetime information for the garment from the external database, 
  • wherein the expected useful lifetime information is based on tracked garment usage and detected wear patterns from a plurality of similar garments; and
• alerting a user when the garment reaches its expected useful lifetime, based on the received expected useful lifetime information and on the tracked garment usage.