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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the Apple-said-Qualcomm-said dept.

Apple said Tuesday that one of its engineers contributed to a patent Qualcomm says the iPhone maker infringed on, a twist in the long-running legal dispute between the two companies. 

Apple said the concept behind the patent, which allows a smartphone to connect to the internet quickly once the device boots up, was proposed by Arjuna Siva, who worked for Apple before the 2011 release of the first iPhone that used a Qualcomm chip. Apple, which said Siva should be named on the patent, argued the point on the second day of a trial in a San Diego federal court.

Before Apple first released iPhones that use Qualcomm chips, the two companies worked together so Qualcomm could meet Apple's requirements for the components. To do that, the companies emailed back and forth and held calls together. The project was so secretive that the companies used code names for each other: Apple was "Maverick" and Qualcomm was "Eureka."

Apple says that while the two companies were in discussions, then-Apple engineer Arjuna Siva came up with the idea that Qualcomm would later patent. Siva, who now works at Google, will testify later in the trial.

"Does Qualcomm believe in giving credit where credit is due?" Apple's counsel, Joseph Mueller of Wilmer Hale, asked Monday. 

Stephen Haenichen, Qualcomm's director of engineering and one of the inventors listed on the patent, said Siva didn't deserve credit for the invention. When asked what contribution Siva made, he replied, "Nothing at all."

In his testimony, Haenichen said Apple asked Qualcomm to build something the company had never made before, and to do it on a very short timeline. When Qualcomm delivered, Haenichen was thrilled. "It was clear this was going to change the way we build modems," he said Monday. "It was going to be meaningful to Qualcomm."


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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday March 10 2019, @02:21AM (2 children)

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday March 10 2019, @02:21AM (#812205) Journal

    And, it was back in the days of DOS, that I was convinced that a basic TCPIP stack should be in the BIOS ROM, just like keyboard, display, and I/O port hooks.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday March 10 2019, @02:42AM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday March 10 2019, @02:42AM (#812208) Journal
    Just what real advantage would it have been to have it load from BIOS instead of from config.sys?

    BIOS is slower and harder to update. And with a 286 or better, at least, the only thing it really needs to get working is the bootloader. Everything else can be copied to RAM and rewritten, and a lot of it normally was.

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    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday March 10 2019, @04:04AM

      by anubi (2828) on Sunday March 10 2019, @04:04AM (#812225) Journal

      Yeah, from config.sys definitely makes more sense.

      I wanted a really minimal stack. Ping, telnet, time, minimum viable product.

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      "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]