PatentMonkey: Microsoft’s Cell Phone with Touch Screen
- July 19th, 2007
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What if the Zune was a cell phone? What if it had a touch screen on the back of it? What could you do with it? Microsoft slipped in a patent application covering a cell phone that can be used as a touch screen computer mouse for your PC. After searching on the topic, we’ve uncovered Microsoft-two-sided-cell-phone-touch-screen-control-your-PC-by-WiFi patent application goodness. Whew, details after the jump…
This discovery comes on the back of the re-surfaced Apple Zune-like, [ninja fighting] patent application hype last week that John and I discussed. Can there be more things connected on this patent application? Not likely.
Here’s what they’ve claimed:
1. A system that facilitates navigating on a display, comprising: a mouse engine component that detects a location; and an interface component that integrates the mouse engine into a handheld communication device.
Short and simple.
Let the race begin between Microsoft and Apple in the cell phone arena. Sit back, grab a drink, this is likely to get really interesting even if some of these patent applications are getting a bit silly.
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Chris (Who am I?)
11 months ago
This would make the perfect home phone….or whatever’s left of the home phone. Think of it, remote and phone all in one…Media Center Integration, yup. Then I just peeped this Microsoft Surface shit….oh my, 10 years from now, its going to be over.