Apple Faces Patent Lawsuit Over Siri in China

[Renzatic]

Typical Americans. For your information, China is also the inventor of paper, the compass, and printing.

Pfft. All those piddly things pale in comparison to their one single greatest contribution to human progress and society:

NOODLES

Yeah. That's right. You like spaghetti? You have the Chinese to thank for that.

 

[spacemanspifff]

I can't comment on how the Chinese thing works or even if it does what Siri is supposed to do. But there is one thing I do know and that is that Apple didn't invent Siri, they "liked it so much they bought the company!" So it could turn out that Siri was developed and copy protected long before this Chinese software mutated from what appears to be an IM app. However, as everyone knows, the Chinese don't seem to recognise other international copyrights so Apple will probably loose the case whatever they can prove.

I'm not bothered either way.

 

[Renzatic]

the question is, which company that doesn't sue apple ?
you can use a life line.

It's not so much as us vs. them situation as it is that everyone is suing everyone for everything these days. Apple sues someone for something stupid, someone else sues Apple for something stupid, then they in turn both sue a 3rd company for something equally as stupid.

 

[Kwill]

The look and behavior in that video is so exactly like Siri, there are really only two possibilities…

The discovery process should be interesting!

Indeed, discovery should be interesting, especially since Siri was in development long ago by a company Apple acquired. Also there's a 1987 Apple video of a computerized personal assistant called Knowledge Navigator.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Indeed, discovery should be interesting, especially since Siri was in development long ago by a company Apple acquired. Also there's a 1987 Apple video of a computerized personal assistant called Knowledge Navigator.

So, the makers of Star Trek should sue Apple for handheld iDevices since Kirk & Spock were carrying around pads & tricorders long before Apple existed? Or should Apple sue the makers of Star Trek since Apple innovated iDevices decades later but time has no meaning when it works against a claim to Apple innovation?

 

[gto55]

China and Copyrights

 

[Dave.UK]

Indeed, discovery should be interesting, especially since Siri was in development long ago by a company Apple acquired. Also there's a 1987 Apple video of a computerized personal assistant called Knowledge Navigator.

Siri started development in 2007

The patent was issued to Zhi Zhen Internet Technology Co Ltd in 2006 after applying in 2003.

"The core technology of Siri is man-machine interaction rather than speech recognition, and that is based on the word chat robot system xiaoi patented," Mei said.

 

[Macist]

Oh, good grief. A computer you can talk to, have it understand you, and speak something back?

Hasn't every child 'invented' that idea in their heads for decades?

 

[Judas1]

The interface looks like a copy of Siri. But the voice recognition, voicing, and the ability to interact with users seems superior to Siri leading me to think they have been developing it long before Siri. If they are suing based on the backend technology, Apple is in trouble.

 

[slffl]

Yet they manufacture 90% of your gadgets, if not all of them.

Oh and by the way, you are borrowing their money

Yet, what's your point? Manufacture does not equal invent.

 

[bretm]

Siriously?

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The look and behavior in that video is so exactly like Siri, there are really only two possibilities:

1) Apple stole it outright from Zhi Zhen.

2) Zhi Zhen patented the basic concept in 2004, but stole the current look and feel from Apple once Siri shipped.

The discovery process should be interesting!

(P.S., my money is on #2 above)

3) The company that made Siri stole it from Zhi Zhen.

 

[slffl]

Perhaps China should buy Apple as they own most of the US debt...., payback time?

South Korea already owns the US. Samsung and PSY took over the American Music Awards and Grammys. American Google sheep also decided to support Samsung instead of an American company.

 

[solyd]

The amount of racism in this thread is awesome.

 

[x5tuu]

I was sat across the aisle on a flight from LHR to NYC recently from a guy who was using this app to dictate emails on his iphone and writing them up in Simplified Chinese ... it was really good and extremely accurate and very very fast at recognising the speech, even at a low volume and with the hub-bub of a plane filling up with folk ready for take-off

From what I have seen they have every right to file, and excluding the design cue's utilised on non iOS platforms it is far more advanced than anything close to what Siri purports to be at the moment.

 

[Renzatic]

South Korea already owns the US. Samsung and PSY took over the American Music Awards and Grammys. American Google sheep also decided to support Samsung instead of an American company.

Post of the year right here, folks. The only thing that would've made it better is if he went with the far edgier "sheeple" rather than use the somewhat pedestrian "Google sheep".

 

[Judas1]

South Korea already owns the US. Samsung and PSY took over the American Music Awards and Grammys. American Google sheep also decided to support Samsung instead of an American company.

LOL. Good one, stick with the "American" company that manufactures everything overseas, while the "foreign" company Samsung has a huge plant here in the US.

 

[HelveticaRoman]

A Chinese court deliberating on intellectual property infringements? Now I've seen everything.

 

[Parasprite]

The amount of racism in this thread is awesome.

In the classical sense of the word "awesome".

 

[Gasu E.]

Pretty sure Siri wasn't around in 2006.

No, but the technology was. Siri (the company) was a spin-off from SRI International.

In December 2007, SRI launched a spin-off company, Siri, Inc., which Apple acquired in April 2010.[98] In October 2011, Apple announced the Siri personal assistant as an integrated feature of the Apple iPhone 4S.[99] Siri's technology was born from SRI's work on the DARPA-funded CALO project, described by SRI as the largest artificial intelligence project ever launched.[100] Siri was co-founded in December 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (vice president, engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/vice president, design), together with Norman Winarsky (vice president of SRI Ventures). Investors included Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.[101]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International

http://readwrite.com/2008/10/13/semantic_stealth_startup_siric

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Lol everyone should just jump on board and sue Apple.

This must be your first time on this site then?

 

[Arcus]

China needs to apply the "glass houses" ethic a bit more.

 

[mudman2]

Wait, China recognizes patent/copyright laws? Since when?

When it wants to lol

 

[yeah]

the question is, which company that doesn't sue apple ?
you can use a life line.

I would like to call Apple's legal team.....

"Hello, who doesn't sue you?"

"Samsung /s"

Ok...... Samsung!

Oh I'm sorry, everyone does!

 

[Squilly]

You can't be serious... It's called competition.

 

[ElRojito]

Wait, wait, wait. So if these guys are saying they first started the "siri" idea, what about ELIZA from 1966? That, I think, is earlier than 2003.