This patent adds to a number of others held by Apple for haptic feedback, and was first filed in 2009.
Another patent adds phone calls to the calendar, ensuring you can dial your appointments with one press.
"In this manner, an advertiser may be billed a higher amount for advertisements provided to users having a higher social authority score than for advertisements provided to users having a lower social authority score," the patent adds.
After covering Motorola's multi-layer LCD solar display, Ericsson's recently issued patent adds a feature in yet another direction: a multiple layered display.
"Today's action should help address one of the questions regarding the value, breadth, and applicability of TiVo's IP portfolio post the 2018 expiration of the '389 patent," added Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, in a statement.
Kevin Noonan, a biotechnology patent lawyer and writer for the blog Patent Docs, described Myriad's move to settle the litigation as an end to the "series of cases that changed the landscape for biotechnology patenting," adding, "It is hard for even an evenhanded observer not to be tempted to ask, 'Are you happy now, Myriad?' ".
He observed that patents "add the fuel of interest to the fire of genius".
AstraZeneca has shaken off a new successful patent challenge, adding 34p to 3333.5p.
AstraZeneca shook off a new successful patent challenge, adding 40.5p to £33.40.
William Rochford and Michael Ritz, who work for the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., have received a patent for adding a scent to photographs.
