Sony Patents a Way to Stream 3D Scans at Any Detail Level from One File
Sony is working on a way to store 3D scans of real-world objects so that a weak device can load a low-detail…
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Samsung Patents a Smarter Pop-Up Window System That Remembers Window Positions
Samsung is filing a patent for a pop-up window manager that doesn't just minimize — it remembers exactly where you left a…
Samsung Patents a System That Generates Personalized Thumbnail Images for Media Content
What if the thumbnail or description image you see for a movie or TV show was generated specifically for you, based on…
Samsung Patents a System for Setting Device Automations With Voice and Gestures
Imagine pointing at your TV and saying 'turn this off when I leave the room' — and having your phone just figure…
Samsung Patents a Pinch-to-Shrink Widget Layout System for Cover Displays
Samsung is patenting a way to let you pinch an active widget down to a smaller tile on a cover display —…
Samsung Patents a Cross-OS Screen Sharing System for Virtualized Apps
Samsung is patenting a way for an app running inside a virtualized guest OS to trigger a screen share of the entire…
Samsung Patents a Two-Direction Lock Screen UI for Foldable Phones
Samsung is patenting a lock screen that responds differently depending on which direction you swipe — one axis changes your wallpaper, the…
IBM Patents a Provider-Agnostic Multi-Tenant Storage Management System
Managing storage across dozens of departments inside a single Kubernetes cluster without stepping on each other's data is a genuine headache for…
IBM Patents a Cache-Preservation System for Zero-Downtime VM Updates
Every time a server gets a software update, the cache it built up — all that hard-won, pre-processed data — typically vanishes.…
Red Hat Patents Automatic Container Image Translation Between Incompatible Runtimes
If you've ever tried to run a Docker-built container on a system that only speaks Podman — or vice versa — you…
Red Hat Patents a Plugin-Driven Build System for Multiple Runtime Environments
Building software that runs in multiple environments — containers, VMs, serverless, bare metal — usually means maintaining separate toolchains and pipelines. Red…
IBM Patents an Automatic Load-Balancing System for Distributed Database Leaders
When one server in a distributed database cluster gets hammered with traffic, the whole system can slow to a crawl — IBM's…
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