Google Patents a Phone Interface That Shows Different Controls Based on What You're Doing
Google is patenting a phone interface that watches what you're doing, figures out the context, and then pops up the most relevant…
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Apple Patents a System for Keeping Health Data in Sync Across All Your Devices
If you track your health on both an iPhone and an Apple Watch, your data sometimes lives in two places at once.…
Samsung Patents a Photo Album Tool That Fills Gaps With Related Pictures
Ask your phone to build a photo album around 'beach trip' and only get three pictures back. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Way to Search Images Inside Documents as If They Were Text
You've probably tried searching a PDF or presentation for something you remember seeing in a chart or photo, only to get zero…
New Patent Tracks Exact Server Cost of Every Software Request
Every time a developer's app pings a Microsoft cloud service, that request burns CPU cycles and memory. Microsoft is patenting a system…
Microsoft Patents a System That Maps How Office Teams Stop Talking After a Reorg
Every time a company reorganizes, informal communication channels break down. Microsoft is patenting a tool that can actually measure that breakdown in…
Microsoft Patents a Desktop System for Tagging and Sorting Screenshots with Emoji
Microsoft is patenting a way to slap emoji or text labels directly onto screenshots as you take them, then have Windows automatically…
Microsoft Patent Targets Bug Scanners That Verify Calling Context Before Flagging Defects
Most automated code scanners flag a bug wherever they find one, whether or not the surrounding code already handles it. Microsoft's new…
Microsoft Patents a Drag-and-Speak Interface That Gives Voice Commands Real Context
Telling your computer to 'summarize this email' only works if it knows which email you mean. Microsoft's new patent solves that by…
Google Patents a System That Reads Streaming Audio to Target Ads at You
Google has filed a patent for a system that converts the audio you're streaming into text, searches that text against a database…
New Patent Fixes Eye Contact Problem in Hybrid Video Meetings
In almost every video call, everyone looks slightly off, staring at the screen instead of into the camera. Google's new patent describes…
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Apple Patents a Video Player That Starts the Next Clip Before You Ask It To
Apple is patenting a video player that begins fading into the next clip a few seconds before the current one finishes, and…
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