Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al

Filing 634

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INFRINGEMENT CONTENTIONS FOR ANDROID 3.0 by Eolas Technologies Incorporated. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A.1, # 2 Exhibit A.2, # 3 Exhibit A.3, # 4 Exhibit A.4, # 5 Exhibit A.5, # 6 Exhibit A.6, # 7 Exhibit A.7, # 8 Exhibit A.8, # 9 Exhibit A.9, # 10 Exhibit A.10, # 11 Text of Proposed Order)(McKool, Mike)

EXHIBIT A.8

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Android 3.0 Platform Highlights
Welcome to Android 3.0!
The Android 3.0 platform introduces many new and exciting features for users and developers. This document provides a
glimpse of some of the new features and technologies, as delivered in Android 3.0. For a more detailed look at new
developer APIs, see the Android 3.0 Platform document.
New User Features
New Developer Features

New User Features
New UI designed from the
ground up for tablets
Android 3.0 is a new version of the
Android platform that is specifically
optimized for devices with larger
screen sizes, particularly tablets. It
introduces a brand new, truly virtual
and “holographic” UI design, as well
as an elegant, content-focused
interaction model.
Android 3.0 builds on the things
people love most about Android —
refined multitasking, rich
notifications, Home screen
customization, widgets, and more
— and transforms them with a
vibrant, 3D experience and deeper
interactivity, making them familiar
but even better than before.
The new UI brings fresh paradigms for interaction, navigation, and customization and makes them available to all
applications — even those built for earlier versions of the platform. Applications written for Android 3.0 are able to use an
extended set of UI objects, powerful graphics, and media capabilities to engage users in new ways.
System Bar, for global status and notifications
Across the system and in all applications, users have quick access to notifications, system status, and soft navigation
buttons in a System Bar, available at the bottom of the screen. The System Bar is always present and is a key
touchpoint for users, but in a new "lights out mode" can also be dimmed for full-screen viewing, such as for videos.
Action Bar, for application control
In every application, users have access to contextual options, navigation, widgets, or other types of content in an Action
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Bar, displayed at the top of the screen. The Action Bar is always present when an application is in use, although its
content, theme, and other properties are managed by the application rather than the system. The Action Bar is another
key touchpoint for users, especially with action items and an overflow dropdown menu, which users frequently access in
a similar manner in most applications.

Customizable Home screens
Five customizable Home screens give users instant access to
all parts of the system from any context. Each screen offers a
large grid that maintains spatial arrangement in all
orientations. Users can select and manipulate Home screen
widgets, app shortcuts, and wallpapers using a dedicated
visual layout mode. Visual cues and drop shadows improve
visibility when adjusting the layout of shortcuts and widgets.
Each Home screen also offers a familiar launcher for access
to all installed applications, as well as a Search box for
universal search of apps, contacts, media files, web content,
and more.
Recent Apps, for
easy visual
multitasking
Multitasking is a key
strength of Android
and it is central to the Android 3.0 experience. As users launch applications to
handle various tasks, they can use the Recent Apps list in the System Bar to
see the tasks underway and quickly jump from one application context to
another. To help users rapidly identify the task associated with each app, the
list shows a snapshot of its actual state when the user last viewed it.

Redesigned keyboard
The Android soft keyboard is redesigned to make entering text fast and
accurate on larger screen sizes. The keys are reshaped and repositioned for
improved targeting, and new keys have been added, such as a Tab key, to
provide richer and more efficient text input. Users can touch-hold keys to
access menus of special characters and switch text/voice input modes from a
button in the System Bar.

Improved text selection, copy
and paste
When entering or viewing text, a new UI lets
users quickly select a word by press-hold
and then adjust the selection area as needed
by dragging a set of bounding arrows to new
positions. Users can then select an action
from the Action Bar, such as copy to the
clipboard, share, paste, web search, or find.

New connectivity options
Android 3.0 includes new connectivity features that add versatility and convenience for users. Built-in support for
Media/Picture Transfer Protocol lets users instantly sync media files with a USB-connected camera or desktop
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computer, without needing to mount a USB mass-storage device. Users can also connect full keyboards over either USB
or Bluetooth, for a familiar text-input environment. For improved wi-fi connectivity, a new combo scan reduces scan times
across bands and filters. New support for Bluetooth tethering means that more types of devices can share the network
connection of an Android-powered device.

Updated set of standard apps
The Android 3.0 platform includes an updated set of
standard applications that are designed for use on larger
screen devices. The sections below highlight some of the
new features.
Browser
The browser includes new features that let users navigate
and organize more efficiently. Multiple tabs replace
browser windows and a new “incognito” mode allows
anonymous browsing. Bookmarks and history are
presented and managed in a single unified view. Users
can now choose to automatically sign into Google sites
on the browser with a supplied account and sync
bookmarks with Google Chrome. New multitouch support
is now available to JavaScript and plugins. Users can
enjoy a better browsing experience at non-mobile sites
through an improved zoom and viewport model, overflow
scrolling, support for fixed positioning, and more.
Camera and Gallery
The Camera application has been redesigned to take
advantage of a larger screen for quick access to
exposure, focus, flash, zoom, front-facing camera, and
more. To let users capture scenes in new ways, it adds
built-in support for time-lapse video recording. The Gallery
application lets users view albums and other collections in
full-screen mode, with easy access to thumbnails for other photos in the collection.
Contacts
The Contacts app uses a new two-pane UI and Fast Scroll to let users easily organize and locate contacts. The
application offers improved formatting of international phone numbers as user types, based on home country and an
international number parsing library. Contact information is presented in a card-like UI, making it easier for users to read
and edit contacts.
Email
The Email application uses a new two-pane UI to make viewing and organizing messages more efficient. The app lets
users select one or more messages, then select an action from the Action Bar, such as moving them to a folder. Users
can sync attachments for later viewing and keep track of email using a home screen Widget.

New Developer Features
The Android 3.0 platform is designed specially to meet the unique needs of applications on devices with larger screen
sizes. It offers all of the tools developers need to create incredible visual and interaction experiences on these devices.
New UI framework for creating great tablet apps
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High-performance 2D and 3D graphics

Support for multicore processor architectures
Rich multimedia and connectivity
Enhancements for enterprise
Compatibility with existing apps

New UI Framework for creating great tablet apps
Activity fragments, for greater control of content and
design flexibility
Starting with Android 3.0, developers can break the
Activities of their applications into subcomponents called
Fragments, then combine them in a variety of ways to
create a richer, more interactive experience. For example,
an application can use a set of Fragments to create a true
multipane UI, with the user being able to interact with
each pane independently. Fragments can be added,
removed, replaced, and animated inside an Activity
dynamically, and they are modular and reusable across
multiple Activities. Because they are modular, Fragments
also offer an efficient way for developers to write
applications that can run properly on both larger screen as well as smaller screen devices.
Redesigned UI widgets
Android 3.0 offers an updated set of UI widgets that developers can use to quickly add new types of content to their
applications. The new UI widgets are redesigned for use on larger screens such as tablets and incorporate the new
holographic UI theme. Several new widget types are available, including a 3D stack, search box, a date/time picker,
number picker, calendar, popup menu, and others. Most of the redesigned UI widgets can now be used as remote views
in application widgets displayed on the home screen. Applications written for earlier versions can inherit the new Widget
designs and themes.
Expanded Home screen widgets
Home screen widgets are popular with users because
they offer fast access to application-specific data directly
from the home screen. Android 3.0 lets developers take
home screen widgets to the next level, offering more
types of content and new modes of interaction with
users. Developers can now use more standard UI widget
types home screen widgets, including widgets that let
users flip through collections of content as 3D stacks,
grids, or lists. Users can interact with the home screen
widgets in new ways, such as by using touch gestures to
scroll and flip the content displayed in a widget.
Persistent Action Bar
The platform provides each application with its own instance of the Action Bar at the top of the screen, which the
application can use to give the user quick access to contextual options, widgets, status, navigation, and more. The
application can also customize the display theme of its Action Bar instance. The Action Bar lets developers expose
more features of their applications to users in a familiar location, while also unifying the experience of using an
application that spans multiple Activities or states.
Richer notifications
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Notifications are a key part of the Android user experience because they let applications show key updates and status
information to users in real time. Android 3.0 extends this capability, letting developers include richer content and control
more properties. A new builder class lets developers quickly create notifications that include large and small icons, a
title, a priority flag, and any properties already available in previous versions. Notifications can offer more types of content
by building on the expanded set of UI Widgets that are now available as remote Views.

Multiselect, clipboard, and drag-and-drop
The platform offers convenient new interaction modes that
developers can use. For managing collections of items in
lists or grids, developers can offer a new multiselect mode
that lets users choose multiple items for an action.
Developers can also use a new system-wide Clipboard to
let users easily copy any type of data into and out of their
applications. To make it easier for users to manage and
organize files, developers can now add drag-and-drop
interaction through a DragEvent framework.

High-performance 2D and 3D graphics
New animation framework
The platform includes a flexible new animation framework that lets developers easily animate the properties of UI
elements such as Views, Widgets, Fragments, Drawables, or any arbitrary object. Animations can create fades or
movement between states, loop an animated image or an existing animation, change colors, and much more. Adding
animation to UI elements can add visual interest to an application and refine the user experience, to keep users
engaged.
Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
Android 3.0 offers a new hardware-accelerated OpenGL renderer that gives a performance boost to many common
graphics operations for applications running in the Android framework. When the renderer is enabled, most operations in
Canvas, Paint, Xfermode, ColorFilter, Shader, and Camera are accelerated. Developers can control how hardwareacceleration is applied at every level, from enabling it globally in an application to enabling it in specific Activities and
Views inside the application.
Renderscript 3D graphics engine
Renderscript is a runtime 3D framework that provides both an API for building 3D scenes as well as a special, platformindependent shader language for maximum performance. Using Renderscript, you can accelerate graphics operations
and data processing. Renderscript is an ideal way to create high-performance 3D effects for applications, wallpapers,
carousels, and more.

Support for multicore processor architectures
Android 3.0 is the first version of the platform designed to run on either single or multicore processor architectures. A
variety of changes in the Dalvik VM, Bionic library, and elsewhere add support for symmetric multiprocessing in
multicore environments. These optimizations can benefit all applications, even those that are single-threaded. For
example, with two active cores, a single-threaded application might still see a performance boost if the Dalvik garbage
collector runs on the second core. The system will arrange for this automatically.

Rich multimedia and connectivity
HTTP Live streaming
Applications can now pass an M3U playlist URL to the media framework to begin an HTTP Live streaming session. The
media framework supports most of the HTTP Live streaming specification, including adaptive bit rate.
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Pluggable DRM framework

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Android 3.0 includes an extensible DRM framework that lets applications manage protected content according to a
variety of DRM mechanisms that may be available on the device. For application developers, the framework API offers an
consistent, unified API that simplifies the management of protected content, regardless of the underlying DRM engines.
Digital media file transfer
The platform includes built-in support for Media/Picture Transfer Protocol (MTP/PTP) over USB, which lets users easily
transfer any type of media files between devices and to a host computer. Developers can build on this support, creating
applications that let users create or manage media files that they may want to transfer or share across devices.
More types of connectivity
The platform offers new connectivity that developers can build on. API support for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP profiles lets
applications query Bluetooth profiles for connected devices, audio state, and more, then notify the user. For example, a
music application can check connectivity and status and let the user know that music is playing through a stereo
headset. Applications can also register to receive system broadcasts of pre-defined vendor-specific AT commands, such
as Platronics Xevent. For example, an application could receive broadcasts that indicate a connected device's battery
level and could notify the user or take other action as needed. Applications can also take advantage of the platform's
new support for full keyboards connected by USB or Bluetooth.

Enhancements for enterprise
In Android 3.0, developers of device administration applications can support new types of policies, including policies for
encrypted storage, password expiration, password history, and password complex characters required.

Compatibility with existing apps
Android 3.0 brings a new UI designed for tablets and other larger screen devices, but it also is fully compatible with
applications developed for earlier versions of the platform, or for smaller screen sizes. Existing applications can
seamlessly participate in the new holographic UI theme without code changes, by adding a single attribute in their
manifest files. The platform emulates the Menu key, which is replaced by the overflow menu in the Action Bar in the new
UI. Developers wanting to take fuller advantage of larger screen sizes can also create dedicated layouts and assets for
larger screens and add them to their existing applications.

More information
For more information about the new developer
APIs, see the Android 3.0 Platform document.
For a video overview of platform features, see the
Android 3.0 Sneak Peek.
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