A few weeks ago I told you that Apple asked an American court to include the Samsung Galaxy S4 in a lawsuit filed against the Koreans during the past year. Then I didn't know why Apple would want to introduce the terminal into the process, but today we find out exactly which patents the device would have infringed. Apple claims that Samsung would be used in the voice search system a part of the interface used by Crab to display information following a search, that it used a system of asynchronous transmission of data between terminals, plus two other technologies related to the display of data generated by a computer system.
Apart from the Samsung terminal, Apple also added the system to the process Google Now which would have violated some systems used in Siri and patented by the company, the unified search boxes being brought into discussion. Practically Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), attack Android wherever they can, their attempts to take it off the market Samsung Galaxy S4, or any other terminal Android, will be doomed to failure, it remains to be seen how many hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent in lawsuits.
Two “Siri” patents on unified search:
US Patent No. 8,086,604 and US Patent No. 6,847,959 on a "universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system"
Apple asserted the '604 patent in a preliminary injunction motion. The Federal Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus and, in addition to equitable reasons, overturned Judge Koh's claim construction in a way that affects both "Siri" patents alike (for an excellent explanation of this claim construction issue, see Patently-O's post). Apple claims that the '604 and '959 patents are infringed even under the appeals court's construction.
US Patent No. 5,666,502 on a "graphical user interface using historical lists with field classes"
US Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" (which I dubbed the "data tapping" patent, a term many reporters have since adopted)
Apple prevailed over HTC on this patent at the ITC. Apple claims that Android infringes this patent at the operating system level (the "linkify" library), as you can see in this infringement claim chart from the HTC case. Apple was enforcing an ITC import ban against HTC but ceased enforcement after a settlement (the parties stipulated to rescission of the exclusion order).
US Patent No. 7,761,414 on "asynchronous data synchronization among devices"
