Apple Claims Rights to ''Saveless'' Documents

[Guest]

Apple has filed a patent applications that describes documents such as spreadsheets, presentations, as well as image and text documents that can be edited, but do not need to be saved by the user.

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[Guest]

Because that's never been done before...

 

[Camikazi]

So they patented autosave, am I wrong or isn't that exactly what Google Docs does now and Word has been doing for a long time now?

 

[sixdegree]

Apple is delusional. The ones with the right to claim "saveless" document as a feature would be electric companies. They have offered this feature since 15 years ago.

 

[Branden]

ummm.... microstation's dgn files have had all this for at least the past 12 years (probably longer, but i hadn't touched microstation before then). every single change was saved in real-time, no need to remember to save it yourself, and every change was logged in the file also - enabling you to potentially "undo changes" all the way to when the dgn was created (even if the file was opened and closed several times by different users since its creation).

nothing revolutionary here.

 

[mortsmi7]

They patented the autosave...

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Branden[/nom]ummm.... microstation's dgn files have had all this for at least the past 12 years (probably longer, but i hadn't touched microstation before then). every single change was saved in real-time, no need to remember to save it yourself, and every change was logged in the file also - enabling you to potentially "undo changes" all the way to when the dgn was created (even if the file was opened and closed several times by different users since its creation).nothing revolutionary here.[/citation]
No, nothing revolutionary but they will sue everyone who does this anyway 🙁

 

[sinfulpotato]

Prior art. If they get awarded this... ugh.

 

[Shotzo]

Prior art: Microsoft OneNote. =/

 

[teh_chem]

Filed June 2011? Surely if they ever wanted to exercise this patent, it would be immediately invalidated by all of the prior art? Unless they bought all associated IP from, say, Microsoft...

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Seems like it is just another example of a broken patent system.

 

[Guest]

At this rate, I'll soon start to love China's philosophy for property right infringement ...

 

[Guest]

What about Onenote? You don´t have to save, the documets itself are saved localy or in cloud.

 

[memadmax]

This is why new innovation will come to a grinding halt.

 

[Maxor127]

I see all of you stopped reading at "elapsed time interval" and rushed to comment. I can't say if it's been done before by another app, but it's nothing like regular autosave like you'd find in Microsoft Office.

 

[aftcomet]

This is honestly becoming a running gag.

 

[beren]

Uhhh...autosave? With Jobs gone they are out of ideas.

 

[A Bad Day]

Apple, there's a thing called, "Rapid autosave".

 

[TidalWaveOne]

PATENT REFORM! NOW!

 

[sykozis]

Gotta love Apple and their generic patents.... Just further proof that patents were intended to eventually stop any form of innovation, not promote it.

 

[Blessedman]

how can a patent office award this? do they take bribes? how much to patent the wheel?

 

[thetwiz]

[citation][nom]TidalWaveOne[/nom]PATENT REFORM! NOW![/citation]

apple already patented reform, sorry

 

[dimar]

This kind of thing should not be allowed!!! This is not a new idea, it's just common sense.

 

[freggo]

Not sure if it is another take at autosave or simply a disk editor.
I mean how about editing a 'document' right on disk's sector?

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]TidalWaveOne[/nom]PATENT REFORM! NOW![/citation]

Nobody in the government have the political will except for a handful of long-sighted judges...