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US 9383956
Smart phones that include touch sensitive screen and supporting voice activated commands for managing or replying to E-mails
Current assignee: Mattel Inc
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US 9,383,956 B2
Title: "Smart phones that include touch sensitive screen and supporting voice activated commands for managing or replying to E-mails"
Patent Number / Application: US 9,383,956 B2; Application No. US 13/710,295 (publication US 2013/0109353 A1).
Inventors: William Ho Chang; Christina Ying Liu.
Assignee / Ownership: Original assignee listed as Mattel Inc.; current assignee listed as Mattel Inc. and Flexiworld Technologies Inc. The excerpt shows a 2013-02-20 reassignment to Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. from the inventors. Per the excerpt, Google notes listed assignees "may be inaccurate."
Key Dates: Priority date 2000-11-01; filing date 2012-12-10; publication of application 2013-05-02; granted/publication date 2016-07-05. Anticipated expiration 2021-11-01; legal status "Expired – Fee Related."
Purpose (plain language): Based only on the title, prior-art keywords, and classification data supplied, the patent concerns smart phones having a touch sensitive screen and supporting voice activated commands for managing or replying to e-mails. Prior-art keywords listed: smart phone; user; touch sensitive; application; sensitive screen. Classifications include G06F3/16 and G06F3/167 (audio/voice in a user interface, e.g. voice commands), G06F3/041 and G06F3/0412 (touch screens/digitisers integrated in a display), G06F3/0482 (interaction with lists of selectable items/menus), G06F3/0488 (touch-screen gestures), and various G06F3/12 printing-related subclasses (e.g. device discovery, job parsing/conversion).
Scope: The supplied excerpt contains no claim text, no detailed description, and no abstract. It does not establish the specific claimed subject matter, claim language, or the precise relationship between the voice-command and touch-screen features.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9383956/en
Not established by the excerpt: It does not provide claim language, an abstract, a detailed description, a full inventor/assignee chain, validity, litigation history, or prior-art analysis. Some bibliographic data (e.g., legal status, assignees, priority date) is expressly labeled by the source as an assumption.
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