The folks over at Patent Bolt have unearthed a fresh filing from Samsung, one which describes a new method of accepting icon stacks and folders on cellphones. A research through the slides and description might well be summed up pretty easily -- icon stacks could well be drawn in a very very parallelogram shape versus a circle or square, have an accordion style animation when expanded, and use vertical scrolling to navigate through. This needs to be sufficient to keep from getting sued sometime in the future, but never say never.
In any case it will new degree eye-candy to automate a simple function. When we ever witness it on Android phones and tablets (and that stone is a big if -- patents are filed and not just used at all times), it will likely be a somewhat different way for Samsung to set themselves apart from the remainder of the pack. We just hope they allow us to shut it off.
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