The U.S. International Commission (ITC) ruled today that HTC has infringed claims 1 and 8 of the ‘647 patent on system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data held by Apple(AAPL).
ITC has banned the importation of infringing HTC phones in the U.S. HTC phones run on Google (GOOG) Android system. The ban will go into effect on April 19, 2012. The ban is subject to residential veto. In my opinion, there is no chance of a veto from President Obama.
ITC has pushed the ban to April to provide transition time for U.S. carriers. HTC will be allowed to import refurbished handsets to be provided to consumers as replacements under warranty or an insurance contract until December 19, 2013.
Here is the abstract of the patent:
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure…Read More at Forbes.
