Apple to patent iPod Interface
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 29, 2004 at 9:48:19 PM
Apple wants to capitalize on the huge success of the iPod by makings its UI patented. Previous devices have all shared the same interface. Why Apple thinks its special is beyond me.
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In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in an automatic transition to a lower order user interface associated with the selected item. In one of the described embodiments, the lower order interface includes other user selectable items associated with the previously selected item from the higher order user interface.