“The USPTO was down for most of last Thursday, which made it very difficult to access Apple’s latest patent applications,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“One of the reports that we were able to post was in regards to Apple TV’s remote controller,” Purcher reports. “Yet hidden within the patents that we weren’t able to access – was a little gold mine.”
Purcher reports, “After careful scrutiny of this patent over the weekend, let me tell you, Apple has some great ideas in mind for their Remote iApp. Better yet – Apple’s patent presents us with a unique overview of a future version of Apple TV that we perhaps hoped for from the very beginning and disappointingly never received. All we can hope for now is that Apple delivers this next generation Apple TV for at least Christmas this year. C’mon Apple – make it happen!”
There’s much more in the full article, which describes Apple’s quest to create the ultimate universal remote and hints that Apple TV may be able run iPhone OS apps, here.
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