H Apple μεταξύ 22 εταιρειών που μηνύονται από την MicroUnity Systems Engineering
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άρθρο αναλύει μια μήνυση που κατέθεσε η εταιρεία MicroUnity Systems Engineering σε 22 εταιρείες, για παραβίαση 14 πατεντών.
Εκτός της Apple, έχουν μηνυθεί και οι Acer, Google, HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Samsung, Spring & Texas Instruments.
Σε ότι αφορά την Apple, η μήνυση αφορά τα iPhone 3GS και τις εκδόσεις 32GB & 64GB του iPod touch.
Άλλες συσκευές που εμπλέκονται είναι οι Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, Google Nexus One και Nokia N900.
Οι 14 πατέντες είναι οι :
- U.S. Patent No. 5,737,547, "System for Placing Entries of an Outstanding Processor Request into a Free Pool After the Request Is Accepted by a Corresponding Peripheral Device."
- U.S. Patent No. 5,742,840, "General Purpose, Multiple Precision Parallel Operation, Programmable Media Processor."
- U.S. Patent No. 5,794,061, "General Purpose, Multiple Precision Parallel Operation, Programmable Media Processor."
- U.S. Patent No. 6,006,318 C1, "General Purpose, Dynamic Partitioning, Programmable Media Processor."
- U.S. Patent No. 6,427,190, "Configurable Cache Allowing Cache-Type and Buffer-Type Access."
- U.S. Patent No. 6,725,356 C1, "System with Wide Operand Architecture, and Method."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,213,131, "Programmable Processor and Method for Partitioned Group Element Selection Operation."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,216,217 B2, "Programmable Processor with Group Floating-Point Operations."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,260,708 B2, "Programmable Processor and Method for Partitioned Group Shift."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,353,367 B2, "System and Software for Catenated Group Shift Instruction."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,509,366 B2, "Multiplier Array Processing System with Enhanced Utilization at Lower Precision."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,653,806 B2, "Method and Apparatus for Performing Improved Group Floating-Point Operations."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,660,972 B2, "Method and Software for Partitioned Floating-Point Multiply-Add Operation."
- U.S. Patent No. 7,660,973 B2, "System and Apparatus for Group Data Operations."
