This is my fifth IEOR 190G Blog Post. This post will be dedicated to the "slide to unlock" patent (US 8046721).
In particular, lets take a look at the first claim:
What is claimed is:
1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising:
- detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image;
- continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and
- unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display.
This passage comes from the part of the patent document where one can read what invention the patent is claiming. In this case the "slide to unlock" patent claims the interface that will detect that you are touching your touchscreen device on the "unlock symbol", will continuously track your finger as you slide it across your screen moving the icon along with your finger until it reaches a designated "unlock zone" where you can let go of your screen and the device will unlock.
This succinctly puts the whole idea behind the "slide to unlock" into a few short statements.
Please view the below video for a presentation on the above!
It was nice that you explained it at the end, but maybe a more detailed breakdown of each part of the claim would have been more helpful.
ReplyDeleteHi Oliviero, thanks for dividing the claims into three parts. The division made it easier for me to gasp the different emphasis with each part of the long sentence. Similar to Abbey, I think it would be nicer if you explain each part respectively and point out the emphasis.
ReplyDeleteHi Oliviero,
ReplyDeleteGreat job on your post! I like how it was really well organized and very clear what you were saying. It was interesting how you divided your post into three parts- but I really agree with Yi, that this made it a lot easier to comprehend. Great job! Really enjoyed it!
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI think you did an excellent job being concise in your post, while still being detailed and covering everything that you needed. I also liked the way you organized it. Good job.
Oliviero,
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I like how you went into detail about the actual specifics of the slide-to-unlock patent and all of the various intricacies that are involved with said invention. As a non-expert of patents, the extent to which these patents have to specific to protect their claims. I believe this is correct due to the incredible litigious society that we live in today.
Cheers