{"id":32154,"date":"2011-08-22T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32154"},"modified":"2011-08-22T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:07:06","slug":"microsoft-gains-metro-ui-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/32154-microsoft-gains-metro-ui-patent.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft gains Metro UI patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has won a patent for their Metro user interface.<\/p>\n<p>Originally filed in early 2010, the patent which deals with \u201cvisual motion for user interface feedback\u201d was approved on August 18 2011 by the USPTO.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the UI from the abstract of the patent application reads, \u201cAspects of a user interface that provides visual feedback in response to user input. For example, boundary effects are presented to provide visual cues to a user to indicate that a boundary in a movable user interface element (e.g., the end of a scrollable list) has been reached. As another example, parallax effects are presented in which multiple parallel or substantially parallel layers in a multi-layer user interface move at different rates, in response to user input.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metro will be used by Microsoft on the next Xbox, Windows 8, and Windows phone mobile OS.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"WP Central\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpcentral.com\/microsoft-graned-patent-metro-ui\" target=\"_blank\">WP Central<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been awarded a patent for their Metro UI regarding visual feedback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2512,123,3846,275],"class_list":["post-32154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-metro-ui","tag-microsoft","tag-patent","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32156,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32154\/revisions\/32156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}