Gesture with an icon to unlock a phone on a touchscreen...
There is a requirement for patents that they not be obvious.
This is so obvious that it's not even funny. How else would you unlock a touchscreen? Tapping a message in Morse code?
As has been said, issuing that patent is the same as issuing a patent for unlocking a phone by pressing a button. It's the obvious way to do something.
Steve Jobs patented the obvious, and the patent office let him.
I haven't read through the other patents, but this is ridiculous.
Next they'll let him patent using voice equalization when interpreting voice input.
Like there's another way to do it...
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