iPhone infringes call display patent

A complaint filed Massachusetts accuses Apple of violating a patent for a basic call display system reports AppleInsider.

Romek Figa, claims that "certain Apple telephones" use technology at the heart of a 1990 patent that describes a system which displays both the phone number of an inbound call.

The technique matches up phone numbers with a contact list stored on the phone, allowing the device to associate a name with any incoming calls.

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