MS looking at 3D tiles, patents live cubes and whatnot
Remember Peter Lackman’s concept back in April last year?
http://mynokiablog.com/2011/04/19/nokia-windows-phone-7-ui-concept-live-cubes/
It appears Microsoft like that 3D tiles nature and have patented it.
The implementation is discussed further over at:
http://www.patentbolt.com/2012/10/microsoft-looks-to-future-3d-tiles-for-next-gen-windows.html
It’s not just cubes. The toast notification might become cylindrical.
I think 3D tiles and cubes fit the WP Metro thing. Just take a look at SurfCube and how nicely that handles gestures.
http://mynokiablog.com/2011/12/01/lumiappaday-15-surfcube-3d-browser-demoed-on-nokia-lumia-800/
Cheers Peter for the tip!
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does Peter Lackman gets the credit?…
I doubt it, which is why it would be very interesting to find out the patent number to see if this concept is mentioned in the ‘prior art’ part.
Could potentially be a cool experience…
The problem is that Nokia has demolished own systems where this idea could be used. No MeeGo. No Symbian. Eventually S##. Swam song. Peter or not Peter – Nokia has gived up, no way to use customer’s idea, only to feed M$ patents. I doubt if his intention was to generate another stupid patent. Stupid as this way a simple geometric transformation, well known from some hundreds years has been patented. Let me know when whole mathematics will be patented. And then they will patent “laugh” to prevent people from laughing on them. Stupidity is first step to lack of education. Simple.
Annethe?
They’ve been patenting math for quite some time – what else is a computer algorithm for encoding, encrypting, processing, whatever – than a set of mathematical functions? It all went downhill when they started accepting software patents as process descriptions…
This shows the whole absurdity of patenting general concepts:
Let’s patent STUPID. This will keep everyone smart.
EXACTLY why if they don’t produce another symbian i’m gettin my 808 and N9/64gb and jumping to jolla
Now that this site (this article) can be archived and cited as a way of challenging the validity of this patent, MS and Nokia will be furious.
“Jay, no more review units for you!”
(from brothers Elop and Ballmer
BTW, SurfCube one of the first apps I’ll install on my Lumia 920