Apple Patents a Lock Screen for Private Browsing and a One-Tap Privacy Fix
Apple is filing patents that treat your private browsing window more like a locked vault, requiring authentication to get back in, while…
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Salesforce Patent Connects Ongoing Chat Conversations Directly to Structured Work Tasks
Salesforce is patenting a way to wrap a conversation thread around a formal work item, so a chat channel and a task…
Microsoft Patents Context-Triggered In-Game Ad Breaks That Pause Gameplay
Microsoft has filed a patent for an ad system that reads the game you're playing and waits for a natural break before…
Apple Patents a Camera System That Stylizes Photos Automatically Based on What's in the Shot
Apple has filed a patent for a system that looks at what's in a photo and, if the image meets certain conditions,…
Apple Patents a System That Flags Bad Photos on One Device and Alerts Another
Your phone thinks your photo isn't good enough, so it silently tells your watch or tablet to step in. That's the core…
Apple Patents a Floor-Plan View That Shows How Air Quality Moves Through Your Home
Apple has filed a patent for a system that takes readings from a physical device in your home and then draws a…
Apple Patents a Way to Keep 3D Map Highlights Visible While They Load
Every time Apple Maps redraws a 3D neighborhood, colored overlays marking parks, traffic zones, or points of interest have to reload too.…
Microsoft Patents a System That Gives Data Files Permanent Nicknames
Every time a data file moves or gets renamed, the code pointing to it breaks. Microsoft's new patent tries to fix that…
Samsung Patents an In-App Translation Tool That Expands the Screen to Fit Both Languages
Reading an app in a foreign language usually means copying text, switching to a translator, then switching back. Samsung's new patent describes…
Samsung Patents a Keyboard That Tailors Word Suggestions to Your Chat Partner
Most phone keyboards suggest words based only on what you've already typed. Samsung's new patent pushes that idea further by factoring in…
Sony Patents a System That Copies Your Vision Settings Across Every App
If you adjust text size or color contrast in one app, Sony's new patent would carry those settings over to every other…
Sony Files Patent for a Two-Layer Daily Playtime Restriction System
Sony is patenting a system that can cap how long you play each day using two independent sets of rules at the…
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