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Inventor

Steven P. Jobs

Patents indexed

2

Year range

2008 – 2009

Associated with

Years active

2008 – 2009

Total patents

2

Most recent

2009

Frequent collaborator

Bas Ording

Domains

consumer_electronicssoftwaretelecommunications

Activity by decade

2000s
2

Patents

2

Career timeline

2 patents, 2008–2009

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20082009

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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 7434177·2008·Apple Inc

How the Apple Mac Dock Magnifies Icons

Apple's 1999 patent on the macOS Dock, which shrinks a row of app icons to save screen space and smoothly magnifies them as your mouse pointer glides over them.

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