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Inventor

Richard Williamson

Patents indexed

2

Year range

2009 – 2012

Associated with

Years active

2009 – 2012

Total patents

2

Most recent

2012

Frequent collaborator

Chris Blumenberg

Domains

consumer_electronicssoftwaretelecommunications

Activity by decade

2000s
1
2010s
1

Patents

2

Career timeline

2 patents, 2009–2012

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2009201020112012

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US 7479949·2009·Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Understand Your Finger Swipes and Scrolls

This patent describes how touchscreens use smart rules, called heuristics, to figure out if your finger movement means scrolling up, moving around a map, or flipping to the next photo, especially by looking at how you start your swipe.

US 8214768·2012·Apple Inc

How the iPhone Switches and Adds Mobile Web Browser Tabs

Apple's 2007 patent on using swipes, edge taps, and dedicated buttons to create and flip through multiple full-screen windows in a mobile web browser.

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