Apple files for five new patents
updated 03:15 pm EST, Thu December 7, 2006
Five new Apple patents
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office today published five new Apple patents relating to various inventions ranging from presentations of clip content to the Mighty Mouse. The first two patents, titled 'Presenting clips of content' and 'Webview applications' both pertain to Apple's Dashboard and application widgets. Another application titled 'Clipview applications' focuses on spreadsheets, and could indirectly be linked to Apple's 'Numbers' trademark which was granted 'registered status' in Europe on July 4th, 2006. The remainder of the Clipview applications patent focuses on the company's Dashboard and widget applications. A fourth patent published today titled 'Performing variable and/or Bitwise Shift Operation for a Shift Instruction that does not provide a Variable or Bitwise Shift option' relates to enhancing instruction sets for microprocessors while referring to a double quadword target operation in the Intel SSE2 instruction set. Yet another patent application titled 'Mouse with improved input mechanisms' incorporates eight patents that date back to 2002/2003 within the current Mighty Mouse application.
