{"id":512,"date":"2009-01-24T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2025-01-24T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:21:36","slug":"apple-patents-another-rockbox-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/apple-patents-another-rockbox-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple patents another Rockbox idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve just read about Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/01\/22\/apple-patents-adaptive-volume-controls-based-on-environment-not\/\">patent application<\/a> (that seems to have been filed on July 17 2007) to alter the volume of a media player based on the external surrounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how this was suggested to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox<\/a> project already back in September 2002 and is logged fine independently by <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041229202528\/www.rockbox.org\/requests.shtml\">archive.org<\/a> &#8211; and in fact also on Sourceforge where we hosted our request-tracker back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time we see this consumer electronics giant patent ideas we&#8217;ve already implemented or discussed publicly a very long time before in the Rockbox project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006 Apple filed to patent a system to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwiredview.com\/2006\/05\/04\/apples-ipod-audio-interface\/\">read up audio clips to the user to help menu navigation<\/a>, a concept we at that time already had implemented and I must say was fairly polished in Rockbox. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/y2006\/0095848.html\">Link to their patent application<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two obvious cases of where the ideas certainly were not new. Not that it tends to prevent patent applications, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"123\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rockbox400.png\" alt=\"Rockbox\" class=\"wp-image-41\" title=\"Rockbox\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just read about Apple&#8217;s patent application (that seems to have been filed on July 17 2007) to alter the volume of a media player based on the external surrounding. It&#8217;s funny how this was suggested to the Rockbox project already back in September 2002 and is logged fine independently by archive.org &#8211; and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/apple-patents-another-rockbox-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple patents another Rockbox idea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[417,128,416],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-politics","category-rockbox","tag-it-politics","tag-legal","tag-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26403,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/26403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}