Samsung Patents a Stroke-Intersection System for Auto-Correcting Handwriting Input
Handwriting on a touchscreen is messy — strokes overshoot, undershoot, and cross each other in ways that turn legible letters into garbage.…
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Samsung Patents a Cross-Device Voice Activity Routing System
Samsung is patenting a way for two devices to listen together and decide which one should handle audio output — based on…
Red Hat Patents a System That Toggles OS Features Based on Energy Use
Red Hat wants Linux to know when it's running low on power — and automatically shut off OS components that aren't worth…
Adobe Patents a Gesture-Driven Unified Color-Control Interface for Image Editing
Adobe is patenting a color-editing interface that lets you tweak multiple color parameters simultaneously with a single gesture — and the histogram…
Sony Patents a Mid-Frame Cancellation System for Cloud Gaming Latency
Cloud gaming's dirtiest secret is that servers often finish rendering a frame your input already made obsolete. Sony's new patent tries to…
Sony Patents a Friend-Matching System Built Around When You Actually Play
Finding online friends who are actually online when you are is surprisingly hard. Sony's new patent tries to fix that by turning…
Salesforce Patents a Real-Time Sync System for Linked Virtual Workspaces
Salesforce is patenting a way to keep two separate virtual workspaces — think channels or rooms — automatically in sync, so a…
Samsung Patents a Priority-Based Display System for IoT Device Alerts
When a dozen smart home devices all trigger alerts at once, which one should your screen actually show? Samsung's new patent answers…
Red Hat Patents a Runtime-Built Alpha Network for Rule Engines
Rule engines typically lock in their decision-making structures at startup — Red Hat's new patent lets that structure build and reshape itself…
IBM Patents a System for Sending Different Screen Content to Different Video Call Participants
Imagine running a Zoom call where your sales team sees the CRM dashboard, your engineers see the terminal logs, and your exec…
Red Hat Patents a Nested Container System for Cross-Platform Workloads
Red Hat has patented a way to spin up a container inside another container — sharing the outer container's network identity —…
IBM Patents a Screenshot Format That Keeps Buttons Functional
A screenshot is usually a dead image — you can see the button, but you can't tap it. IBM wants to change…
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