Google is your friend in this case. IANAL. There are some pretty good writeups on these in various places on the web. They both got a lot of press attention. Groklaw may be a good starting place: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20050402193202442

KSR is about an obvious application of something. (Obvious to anyone skilled in the craft or industry under discussion). These obvious applications of existing technology are much harder to patent since that ruling, even if you are using it in a new device).

BILSKI calls into question business practices patents, as well as software patents.

Yeah, sort of… but far more “intelligent.”

For example the calendar, and other apps, would display clickable info.

Intelliscreen is nice for now, but not even close to what this could be.

If this is meant to simply be new icons with stripped down location-based info… well, then it’s of little use to most, I would guess.

They should call it intelliscreen and pretend they invented it…

I think the term “home screen” is misleading in the article’s first bullet point.

I figure this is a lock screen or “first” screen that updates depending on where you are and/or what you have planned (in Calendar), and/or where you’re headed (a link to launch GPS which is already routed), giving you the temperature and weather of where ever you currently are, the correct time if you’ve changed time zones, the names and numbers/email addresses of people you have scheduled to contact at a certain time, etc, etc.

It would constantly update with whatever relevant information pertains to your location at any given time of day. You could simply click on them to call, launch, email, text, etc.

I don’t interpret this as being a reorganizing or rearranging of icons as you move throughout your day. That would just be ridiculous.

Can you give a synopsis, rather than all of us having to read through 100′s of pages of legal documents?

Two words: KSR and BILSKI

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/04-1350.pdf http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1130.pdf

What apps I want to use does not depend on where I am.

(This sounds like apple looking for its lost quarter under the street light because its easier to see there than it is back in the alley where it was dropped).

Category and User Assigned Tags would make more sense than what we have today.

Speech-to-text would take what you say into the iPhone and transcribe it into editable text (similar to what many 3rd party apps offer now).

Really? Apple Patented that?

Imagine what the Dragon Dictate people must be thinking?

Or the Google Mobile App Developers?

Prior Art Much?

I SO want this feature. BUT It is an OBVIOUS use of speech to text, and thus this patent will not stand.