Go Rumors reports, “In the application, Microsoft writes: ‘One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-turning gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page turn actively follows the page-turning gesture. The virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page. A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page. A page-flipping gesture quickly flips two or more pages.'”
Go Rumors reports, “To be fair, virtual page curling is neither Apple’s nor Microsoft’s innovation. At least as far as I can remember, the functionality was already available on the iPhone app named Classics.”
Full article, with Microsoft’s patent application illustrations, here.
MacDailyNews Take: A patent application is not a patent granted.
any1 patent the sound of paper flip yet?
Let us not forget that there is a very similar slide turning transition in Keynote, and that has been with us for quite some time. I would suggest that any such page turning, especially with transparency, that Apple uses in any of its apps has its origins in that Keynote transition.
Prior Art.
I guess M$ is looking at iOS’s APIs and they go: what else can we patent?
Wasn’t that implemented in Google maps on iP?
I have patented the lick your finger before flipping the page. All you people send me my money now!
This only affects iPad and iPhone 3GS owners due to iPhone 4 being a fail ahahhahah
I miss Tune Zang. He might have amused us as to how MS will close down iPad production. Really miss him.
Isn’t Microsoft forgetting to patent the wheel first?
two words: How sad…
Didn’t HyperCard have a curled corner that you could click to more to the next card?
@ theloniousMac
Excellent point!!
I thnk Apple should just come up with an even COOLER way to turn a page, and they can stuff their stupid patent.
Prior art. Not likely to be granted. If it is, it won’t be enforceable.
Yet another example of Microsoft innovation…
It’s one thing to apply for a patent on something already being used, and an obvious user interface concept… and quite another to be granted that patent. Just more attempts to scatter more FUD about iPad/iPhone. Not really big or important news here.
i am pretty sure an analog book fits all those criteria
If anyone cares, the Kindle app on my iPad also has a page curling feature for page changes.
The Classics iPhone app is (was?) the best book reader. Too bad iBooks seems to have appropriated their approach, as I would have preferred to see Classics continue with their brilliant work. In fact, I still enjoy it.
Apple iPad lends itself to use as an e-book reader: size, form-factor, and battery life are all on its side….
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This shows how stupid software patents really are. It’s time for the US to get rid of them once and for all.
Beeing able to patent software stifles innovation. I’m happy we don’t have this crap in the EU but our companies are still affected because of the RETARDED laws of the USA.