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Originally Posted by Powermonkey500 
It's more specific that some of you are leading on.
"System and Method for Simultaneous Display of Multiple Information Sources" is just the title of the patent.
Still, I don't condone patent trolls.
It's more specific that some of you are leading on.
"System and Method for Simultaneous Display of Multiple Information Sources" is just the title of the patent.
Still, I don't condone patent trolls.
Was gonna point this out too. They might actually have something here, patent troll or not.
My guess is Microsoft will settle.
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Originally Posted by Tehrawk
Its in all GUI's, since GUI's were first invented. Totally ridiculous.
Its in all GUI's, since GUI's were first invented. Totally ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by snoball
This is in Android as well.
This is in Android as well.
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Originally Posted by Cantii
So they developed said technology and patented it. Why haven't they gone after Google or Apple yet? They both have "live tile" technology, as well.
Can't sue 'em all, I suppose, eh?
So they developed said technology and patented it. Why haven't they gone after Google or Apple yet? They both have "live tile" technology, as well.
Can't sue 'em all, I suppose, eh?
See above. The patent seems to specifically refer to a grid of square tiles that update asynchronously, i.e. the Microsoft live tile implementation. Neither Android nor iOS nor anyone else does it quite like this.
However, the patent doesn't refer to mobile systems specifically; I don't know if that would change anything.
My guess is that it will depend on how closely Microsoft's implementation matches theirs. There are a whole bunch of diagrams in the patent that I'm not going to take the time to comprehend, but you can bet that Microsoft's engineers and lawyers will pore over them with a fine-toothed comb.
Edited by flamingoyster - 10/31/12 at 12:49pm
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if you ask me looks like a patent squatter /troll .. "SurfCast designs Operating System technology" they should have sued for windows using windows too 
But you're right, why only MS? Why not Apple? If nothing else, At least this news will help increase the popularity of Windows 8.
