By Brad Reed | BGR News – 4 hrs ago The always-eagle-eyed PatentBolt has spotted a new patent application from Google ( GOOG ) that indicates the company is designing a way to bring radial menus to its Android and Chrome devices. From the initial designs, it looks as though the radial menus will not be visible on the screen until a user makes a swipe gesture from the edge of a device. Once the swipe is made, a semicircle menu pops up in the section ofthe screen where the swipe was made. The logic behind the semicircle menu is to save screen real estate and give usersa simpler way to access different features of their applications. If Google is looking to dodge bullets with its new design, however, it may be out of luck: As PatentBolt notes that Apple ( AAPL ) has filed two patents for similar technology over the past couple of years. info from : @yahoonews http://news.yahoo.com/google-toys-major-android-redesign-patent-wars-heat-191017806.html?_esi=1
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