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Although it sounds absurd, but innovation is something that characterizes the technology, Microsoft has filled out the forms to get the patent for "to turn the virtual page."

So, with the number 20100175018 in the Patent and Trademark Office, Microsoft seeks patent animation when you flipped the page in a virtual book, using the appropriate flick on the screen. That's how Microsoft describes it in his attempt to patent:

"A gesture of turning the page is directed to the page displayed and it is recognized. Responding to that recognition, he turns the page on the touch screen device ... The virtual page is folded in a part of the page to show progressively the other side of the page and go showing also, increasingly, the front of the subsequent page ... A page-turning gesture can turn quickly to two or more pages. "

And this is what it is: it is essential that the animation is when, for example, are used Apple iBooks for IPAD and the iPhone, Kindle or a device with touch screen, Stanza on the iPhone, Aldiko in Android and presumably others.

Turn your finger to move forward or backward on a page. This type of animation simulating a book has been done many times. What we have not seen is the ability to move several pages at a time, for example. Microsoft's vision in this regard is the ability to move in multiple pages by moving your finger down on the right. "Thus, the relationship between speed of the gesture and the resulting speed of page turning may be linear, exponential, or any other suitable type of relationship," the form of the patent.

The patent, which was filled in January 2009 but was released just last Thursday, may have been the result of Microsoft's work in his Courier, the tablet computer, which Redmond eventually close in April. When this happened, a spokesman for Microsoft, Freank Shaw said: "In every moment we are looking for new ideas, researching, testing, incubating them."

If "a virtual page-turning" is an example of a "new idea" by Redmond, years of Ballmer at the company are not showing the latest in the 35-year history of Microsoft.

There are, of course, a slight possibility that this patent is granted, which would make Microsoft put an any kind of problems Apple, Amazon and others who have already animations of this nature in their applications, though this is remote.

Note that Microsoft states, on page 11 of the form, that the discussion of methods to provide information to the device, "could use other sources than to run your fingers around a page to another." We leave the reader the implications of this potential capacity to your imagination.