Five new Apple patents

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office today published five patent applications filed by Apple Computer in Cupertino. The new patent filings include 'Run-time code injection to perform checks' relating to digital rights management; 'Methods and systems for managing data' related to methods and systems for processing data -- including metadata and an index database; a 'Method and apparatus for increasing data transfer rates through a communication channel' relating to techniques for communicating data through a communication channel; a 'Hybrid voltage/current-mode transmission line driver' relating to a method and apparatus for compensating for frequency dependent losses when transmitting signals through a lossy communication channel; and 'single-channel convolution in a vector processing computer system' relating to convolution operations in a vector processing computer system.

by MacNN Staff