Creative threatens Apple with UI patent

While it struggles to compete with Apple in the marketplace, Creative is exploring a new avenue for dethroning the digital music king : patent litigation. Creative announced Tuesday it had been granted a patent covering the user interface for portable media players, including the iPod.

Specifically, the patent involves the method for selecting at least one track on a portable player as a user sequentially browses through a hierarchy of three or more screens on the display. For example, the patent would cover a user navigating from an artist, to a list of albums, to a list of songs on an album.

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