Instead, it found that some HTC smartphones using Android violated only two claims of one Apple patent related to extracting information such as phone numbers from emails and doing something with the information, such as making a phone call.

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Combining all these data sources in a meaningful way, and extracting useful information from them, will not be easy.

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Yamaichi's brokers have been retrained to look at the bigger picture, extracting financial information from customers in private booths that have been introduced into branch lobbies, then offering advice and only later clinching the sale.

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Of course if you are an accountant, like Mr. Dodds, extracting the relevant information from your personal account is no big deal, which may be why Mr. Dodds did not bother with it particularly since he would have needed to keep making transfers into the business account.

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Because the system that makes Siri available is so complex and multifaceted, Apple could reasonably justify extracting and using the information contained in just about any question people ask Siri.

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