When Microsoftkilled Courier dead , they promise that “ it will be evaluated for use in future offer . ” One of those innovations look to have been the iBooks - like “ virtual page twist , ” which Microsoft applied to patent of invention in January of 2009 .
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-cancels-innovative-courier-tablet-project-5527442
Of naturally , “ invention ” is here used loosely , since there are other very standardised engineering science out there . Still , the Microsoft letters patent does seem atrociously specific :
“ One or more Sir Frederick Handley Page are displayed on a signature display . A page - turning gesture direct to a displayed varlet is recognized . antiphonal to such acknowledgement , a virtual Thomas Nelson Page bout is displayed on the touch sensation display . The virtual pageboy turning actively follows the page - turning gesture . The practical page turn curls a raise portion of the page to progressively break a back side of the page while increasingly revealing a front side of a subsequent page . A lifted luck of the Thomas Nelson Page is given an increased transparency that provide the back side of the page to be consider through the front side of the page . A varlet - flipping gesture quickly flips two or more pages . ”
Which is pretty much the iBooks experience . Of course , Microsoft has n’t been awarded this patent yet . But if they are ( and who does n’t get it on conjecture ? ) , the could carve themselves a pretty nice slice of the iBooks pie . [ USPTOviaGoRumors ]
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