Google filed for patent on Notification Bar in 2009, patent still pending
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Google Patents shows a filing that was made by the Mountain View based firm back in January 2009. Application 12/363,325 seeks a trademark for "A computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface, a notification of a recent alert event for a mobile device, receiving a user selection in the status area, and in response to the receipt of the user selection, displaying, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device." All fancy talk describing a Notifications Bar.
So why has Google's attorneys kept their hands in their pockets? Simple. Even though the filing was made in early 2009, the patent is still pending. So there it is. You can be sure that Google has an Army of well-paid lawyers just waiting and waiting and waiting for the day that the USPTO makes the patent official.
source: Google via Phandroid
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Google filed a patent for its Notification Bar back in January 2009 |
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61 Comments
1. 2pe_2pe posted on 17 Feb 2012, 03:12 28 0
i can imagine the guys at Cupertino pissing their pants once this patent's made official. gotta see this one, apple's patent lawsuits backfiring against them. I wonder what nonsense of an excuse would apple make in defense?
6. shafboy posted on 17 Feb 2012, 04:51 14 0
(I am against Apple for this)
Apple: In our defence, our notification bar is different to the one on Android. It doesn't allow access to settings.
*Apple bribes court*
APPLE WINS.
18. 2pe_2pe posted on 17 Feb 2012, 06:23 10 0
how different? hell, apple sues every other company that has something similar to iOS even if the similarity is only 1%. Now, they are saying the iOS notification bar is different? its like 99% similar to android! if there is one company that needs to be sued for patent violations, it should be Apple..
21. kryptoner posted on 17 Feb 2012, 07:09 5 0
only way in which it is different than android notification bar is that it is ugly!
36. shafboy posted on 17 Feb 2012, 10:47 7 0
It is actually an EXACT copy, and even some of my friends who are Apple fanboys admit that it is a copy
22. maier9900 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 08:08 3 5
Im sure Apple did the notification bar with such careful design that it won't even show up in the patent. WHO THE HELL HAS GUTS TO SUE APPLE???
39. ZayZay posted on 17 Feb 2012, 11:31 4 0
Ya know, I was wondering about this when they announced it and then laughed when they did. If they are trying to be so different, why have this feature?
2. theindianguy posted on 17 Feb 2012, 03:20 11 0
and as soon as USPTO makes it official, BAM google is gonna nail em.
23. quakan posted on 17 Feb 2012, 08:28 0 4
Breaking News: "The USPTO has Denied Google's Request for the Notification Bar" haha
34. JonBjSig posted on 17 Feb 2012, 09:57 0 1
Says who, I can't find anything about that.
Post some proof if you're so sure of it...
35. E.N. posted on 17 Feb 2012, 10:47 2 0
He was just joking......
37. JonBjSig posted on 17 Feb 2012, 10:54 0 0
Ok, it seemed like mockery when I read it.
60. quakan posted on 18 Feb 2012, 09:41 0 0
@E.N. yes i was...people on this site kill me with taking everything serious haha. I had some angry android fans ready to bite my head off.
3. yingcong6 posted on 17 Feb 2012, 04:33 1 1
Why they keep patenting the idea? That's an idea, you think it first so don't let anyone think it at second to touch it? The final lose is our customers if they keep doing so.
25. frydaexiii posted on 17 Feb 2012, 08:39 2 0
Thing is, this is no longer an idea, this has been on almost all versions of Android. Same as Face Unlock for Android, it has been done, it's no longer just an idea.
Now Apple applying for Face Unlock using advanced methods, that's an idea, locking of your iOS device with a stylus using magnets? Another idea. For all we know Apple can't produce all these and so no one can because they are going to own patents to it...
26. McLTE posted on 17 Feb 2012, 09:11 1 1
Yingcong is correct though in the context that the big losers here are US, the consumers.
It would be nice (a fairy tale) to see the OEMs work together to move phone tech forward, and bringing it to new heights.. instead of trying to stifle creation and force each other out of the market.
it's not like there's not enough room for both Apple and Google! (and many others)
45. -box- posted on 17 Feb 2012, 13:42 0 0
Apple's not the only one with face unlock... Nokia has had it in beta for a while, and Google showed some prototypes of it at CES 2012 if I remember right
4. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 17 Feb 2012, 04:50 15 0
Wow apple gets slide to unlock even tho they didnt invent it and google is still waiting on this....
