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Apple Applies for Patent on Intelligent 'Power Management for Electronic Devices'

DanTheAppleMan said:
They've patented a system... for changing a power profile based on expected demand ?

Really ?
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I'm sorry, but as much as I like Apple products, and regardless of the merits of this particular patent, as the VZW article demonstrates, this is getting ridiculous. It's a patent regarding slight ramifications on power charging (no matter how you slice it).

I think I'll file a patent on taking a **** and wiping my *** with folded paper by square, not crumpled. If anyone violates this patent, I'm suing. :p <- that's a yuck lol
 
bedifferent said:
I'm sorry, but as much as I like Apple products, and regardless of the merits of this particular patent, as the VZW article demonstrates, this is getting ridiculous. It's a patent regarding slight ramifications on power charging (no matter how you slice it).

I think I'll file a patent on taking a **** and wiping my *** with folded paper by square, not crumpled. If anyone violates this patent, I'm suing. :p <- that's a yuck lol
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I must admit it's tempting to put in an application for a 'Pocket mobile device with computing and telephony functionality' and try to sue any and every manufacturer of mobile phones, just because that's the norm now.

The patent system is good when used properly - it protects true innovation from (commercialised) copying. But I agree it is getting ridiculous now. It's just become a way to hinder the competition.
 
DanTheAppleMan said:
I must admit it's tempting to put in an application for a 'Pocket mobile device with computing and telephony functionality' and try to sue any and every manufacturer of mobile phones, just because that's the norm now.

The patent system is good when used properly - it protects true innovation from (commercialised) copying. But I agree it is getting ridiculous now. It's just become a way to hinder the competition.
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Absolutely agree. When applied properly, it is an effective system. Yet as technology has progressed at staggering rates, so to have IP patents. Instead of supporting a "fair" and "competitive" environment that benefits the consumer and the industry, advancements are stifled in courts.
 
until you go to USPTO's site and read the *actual* patent application, not this mere chart from one, nobody here knows what theyre talking about. theyre very lengthy and are about more than a dumb flowchart.

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DanTheAppleMan said:
The patent system is good when used properly - it protects true innovation from (commercialised) copying. But I agree it is getting ridiculous now. It's just become a way to hinder the competition.
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dude - thats what patents have *always* been used for. thats their entire point.
 
Wonder what happens when you deviate from a "normal" routine. Ie, Mon-Friday you normally unplug in the morning, go to work. Then One week you do that Mon-Wed, and on Thursday you go off somewhere other then it thinks you normally go, with a longer period without charging? It would be set to charge at a certain point and have run the device for this but would in fact be running to much power until the power point arrives.
 
Where does this hypothetical businessman get to watch "one or more videos" while supposedly working?
 
Reminds me a tiny bit of the battery life options in Motorola's "SmartActions" from a few years ago, where the phone makes suggestions.


A lot of these patents and ideas are just copies of things that people do in everyday life.

Like when you know your battery is low, you take steps to conserve it.

Automating what a person normally does, hardly seems worth of a twenty year exclusive.

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