Apple Patents a Smarter Push Notification Distribution System
Every app on your iPhone quietly registers itself to receive push notifications — one at a time, over and over. Apple's new…
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Apple Patents Motion-Triggered Restricted Mode for Parental Controls
Apple is exploring a way to lock down a device automatically based on physical movement or gestures — no tapping through settings…
Apple Patents a System That Predicts What You Want to Paste Next
Your phone already knows what you just read — Apple wants it to quietly offer that content the moment you open a…
Apple Patents a Cross-Device Screen System That Reacts to Where You Place Your Phone
What if placing your iPhone on your iPad's screen automatically let the two devices share content — and the iPad could tell…
Google Patents a Real-Time Video Distortion Removal System Using Masked Frames
Ever noticed how background-blurring effects in video calls sometimes cause your arm to flicker, or your hair to warp? Google is filing…
Google Patents a Smarter Filtering System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, your device is making thousands of tiny guesses about what each block of pixels should look…
Google Patents a Server-Side Streaming System for Digital Twin 3D Models
Google is patenting a pipeline that takes heavy 3D digital twin data, simplifies it on the server using parallel processing, and streams…
Google Patents a Faster Probability Model Init for Video Compression
Every time a video codec starts encoding a new frame, it needs a statistical 'best guess' about what the image data will…
Google Patents a Smarter Probability Model Selection System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, a codec is making thousands of statistical guesses per frame. Google's new patent tries to make…
Google Patents a Smarter Prediction Scheme for 3D Mesh Compression
3D meshes are made of millions of tiny triangles, and compressing them efficiently means guessing vertex positions as accurately as possible before…
Microsoft Patents a Distributed Antialiasing Engine for Smoother Cloud-Streamed Graphics
Jagged edges are the telltale sign of a game or app running on someone else's hardware. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting the…
Microsoft Patents Automated Data Lineage Extraction from Database Query Logs
Every time a database query runs, it leaves a trail — and Microsoft wants to automatically turn that trail into a full…
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