On December 7, the US Patent & Trademark Office published two of Apple’s patent applications respectfully titled ‘Presenting clips of content’ and ‘Webview applications.’ Both pertain to Apple’s Dashboard and application Widgets. A third in this series titled ‘Clipview applications’ was reported on earlier this morning in a separate report.
Due to the extraordinarily detailed summaries of both of the patents noted above, only the individual abstracts are provided for in this report.
Apple’s Abstract for Presenting Clips of Content
An implementation allows a user to select an area of interest in a content source and to clip content from the area of interest. A variety of content types may be clipped and presented to a user, and the clipped content may be refreshed from the selected area of interest. Various configuration parameters, as well as the clipped content, may be stored for future retrieval by a clipping application that presents the clipped content. Methods, computer program products, systems, and data structures are provided. One method includes providing a presentation of content copied from a designated area of interest in a content source, maintaining information identifying the designated area of interest, requesting, automatically, new content from the designated area of interest using the maintained information, and updating the presentation with the new content.
For more details, see “Presenting Clips of Content”
Apple’s Abstract for Webview Applications
An implementation allows a user to select an area of interest in a content source and to clip content from the area of interest. A variety of content types may be clipped and presented to a user, and the clipped content may be refreshed from the selected area of interest. Various configuration parameters, as well as the clipped content, may be stored for future retrieval by a clipping application that presents the clipped content. Methods, computer program products, systems, and data structures are provided. One method for displaying web content in a user interface includes identifying a web content source, selecting a portion of the web content source to be included in a view, maintaining information associated with the web content source including a name and identifying information for designating the selected portion, and displaying the view of the selected portion of the web content source.
For more details, see ‘Webview applications‘
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Written and researched by Neo.
