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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2009
Applicants:
Kevin Decker, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy G. Hatcher, Tracy, CA (US);
Michael P. Thole, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kevin Decker, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy G. Hatcher, Tracy, CA (US);
Michael P. Thole, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A new resource address is registered in response to input received from a user. The user is then notified when a visually non-empty portion of content from the resource address has been loaded into a viewing area of the content viewing application. The notification cues the user to direct his/her attention to the viewing area of the content viewing application.