The Us patent office USPTO, Apple has granted a patent that describes how an interface responds to vingeraanrakingen. It seems to be a general description of the operation of a device with a touch screen.
The granted patent describes a method in which movement of a finger across the touchscreen of a device ensures that the software responds to by other content. An application is scrolling through a web page on a device with touchscreen. Also state in the patent that a webpage or application to other content can be displayed when a touch screen with multiple fingers at the same time is operated: below are likely to fall multitouch gestures such as to zoom in and out on a web page. Apple used such techniques in touch-screen devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
Apple’s patent seems to be so general that, in theory, all smartphonebesturingssystemen with touchscreens, such as Android, Windows Phone and Symbian, here infringement. Because of this, it is likely that the granting of the patent for a lot of criticism. Had the USPTO already know the way of granting software patents against the light and want to keep it. There better be evaluated or a granted patent really a new idea describes.
May want to Apple the patent to use competitors to complain, though it seems plausible that other companies efforts to make the patent void. There are, in recent years many lawsuits filed by technology companies in which competitors were accused of patent infringement. Apple complained, among other Nokia and HTC, but was itself also sued for patent infringement.
Update, 11.50: According to Thisismynext describes the patent less applications than in the media is the message. It only goes to the reaction to control with a finger on pages with content in frames and with two fingers on that frame itself. The site gives as an example the iPhone-operation on a site with Google Maps-frame: drag with one finger allows for scrolling and the user can zoom in on Google Maps by pinchen with two fingers.
