After the patent related to the iOS interface this is how the company is today Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it was registered to him a very important patent that this time concerns the technology behind the scroll bar that we see in the Safari browser and any other applications that open web pages in iOS. The patent describes the technology on which the bar works and the emphasis is on the system that hides the bar when the user does not touch the screen. Thanks to this technology, elements on the screen are not hidden when we do not use that bar and Apple has practically patented a system used in almost any mobile terminal.
As portable electronic devices become more compact, and the number of functions performed by a given device increases, it has become a significant challenge to design a user interface that allows users to easily interact with a multifunction device. This challenge is particularly significant for handheld portable devices, which have much smaller screens than desktop or laptop computers.
I don't know if at the moment there is any mobile terminal that has implemented a different system for displaying that scroll bar on its own screen, and here we are talking about a very powerful weapon for Apple. Based on such a patent, the company can remove from sale the terminals of any other competing company if a court approves this. Considering that Apple has removed from sale competing terminals for similar things, there are good chances that the same thing will be done based on this patent and it will be interesting to see how Apple will use it.
