Over the last 6 weeks we've posted three patent reports (one, two and three) showing that Samsung is pushing full steam ahead on developing next-gen foldable smartphones and tablets. We've now learned that the US Patent Office published yet another new Samsung patent application last week that is quite extensive. In today's brief patent application report we simply point you to Samsung's vision of a tri-fold smartphone and foldable tablet that could support multiple operating systems depending on the app that is in use at the time.
According to Samsung, electronic devices with foldable displays may be applied to any of various apparatuses such as a mobile phone, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), an MP3 player, a kiosk, a digital photo frame, a navigation system, a digital TV, or a wearable device.
Samsung References Multiple Cloud OSs
Through Samsung's patent filing they make reference to these new foldable display devices using multiple OSs, a Cloud OS and Cloud OSs. .
In one part of their filing they specifically note that "The electronic apparatus may change an OS that is driven in the electronic apparatus according to an unfolding degree of the electronic apparatus. Alternatively, the electronic apparatus may drive a plurality of different OSs according to an unfolding degree of the electronic apparatus."
They further note that "OS manufacturers may provide various OSs (for example, an OS for smartphones, an OS for tablets, and an OS for computers) according to a size of a screen of a target apparatus in which the OS is driven."
Samsung continues their line of thinking by stating: "Accordingly, the electronic apparatus needs to provide different OSs based on the user's unfolding degree of the electronic apparatus. An application may be executed only in a specific OS. Accordingly, the electronic apparatus needs to drive a plurality of OSs as desired."
In some parts of the patent filing, Samsung refers to the OSs as a first and second Cloud OS. The "electronic apparatus may display a driving screen of the first cloud OS or the second cloud OS by executing a web application or the like on the first OS that is driven in the electronic apparatus."
No reference is ever given or confirmed as to whether Samsung is thinking of introducing a multi-OS system that uses Android, Windows 10 and Tizen. Samsung's references surrounding the terminology of operating system terms is always done so generically.
Samsung filed their patent application back in June 2014 in Korea. Considering that this is a patent application, the timing of such a product to market is unknown at this time.
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