A patent application filed by Apple Computer in December 2004 covers a method of buying music or music video from an online store over a wireless network. The application was published Thursday on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web site. The application describes an invention that allows cell phone or wireless handheld users to interact with an online music store–such as iTunes–and bookmark a song or video file that can be downloaded to a computer at a later time.
Macsimum News has more details and drawings here.
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Is it really news when Apple applies for a patent? Companies patent every silly idea that passes through their collective heads these days, whether or not they actually plan to do anything with it. They have to — if they don’t, someone else will.
How many patents have we seen from Apple that have come to exactly crap? The “chameleon case” comes to mind.
Amazing the constant whining about what MDN posts here. Perhaps we should take a poll and see what exaclty qualifies as Mac news. It would be interesting to see.
Maybe some people only want a posting when Apple releaes a product.
That sure would make for a boring website.
Pleaeeese no more Apple patents MDN. Only a handful actually turn into products.
Amen. Enough with these Apple patent blurbs. Ya can’t do a damn thing with a patent till it is made into a commercial product, and the product is the real deal. Oh, sure, there’s the old “gotta protect my intellectual property and really good idea” ploy, but please, enough of the “woulda, coulda shoulda, maybe, if, and when” malarkey. Jus’ calm down and wait fer August 2006, unless yer Microsoft which means some other time 20XX.
you know, you dont have to read every article, the title kinda lets you know the content and some people might be interested.
Amen Andy!!
If you don’t want to read articles about new patents or some other topic — don’t click on them when you read the title. Like Duh-h-h-h.
When you buy a newspaper or magazine — do you feel that you need to read every article?
Some of us may be interested in topics that you aren’t and vice versa. That’s life.
MDN – why not have a separate ‘Apple Patents Page’?
What I’d like is a radio with wireless and iTunes built-in.
Examples:
1. The radio that mounts under the kitchen cabinet: have wireless a/b/g, a small amount of buffer cache (32 or 64MB kinda like the iPod buffers from the hard drive), NO hard drive (a la hd-based iPod), no large flash memory (a la Nano), asmall screen (like the iPod) for selecting the iTunes share, playlists, etc. I just want to be able to put a radio in the kitchen (for example) that will play my playlists.
2. A small radio for bedroom, etc. It would have the same characteristics of #1 above. Maybe also a headphone jack you could use to plug in external speakers. Maybe make it an alarm clock too. Something that would also do fine in the garage. And as a small wireless media device (not just listening to iTunes music but watching your iTunes video). Maybe one without video and one with video to sit next to a small TV in a work room or something. A remote would be nice, kinda like the iPod in a dock can use a remote even though you can’t see the small screen from across the room.
3. A “component” for a home stereo/theater system that has wireless (with connector for external antenna for better reception in typical home stereo/theater setups. Airtunes is not the same. This device would have those same characteristics as #1 but maybe with 128MB buffer or something. Remote too. Video output for the display/screen to show up on a TV, which would also be required to play any videos that are also in iTunes. I don’t really like how things like DirecTV make you turn on the TV to see info about what music is playing so I’d like to see the small display on this component.
Numbers 1 and 2 should NOT cost as much as the iPod Hi-Fi. Number 3 may. These should also be able to play purchased iTunes songs. Not sure how the device would be “authorized” to play such content.
wonderboy:
Like, maybe I don’t click on the patent blurb links because it’s always the same story with a few new words or phrases. Duh. Kinda like, ya know, going to yer local grocery store and, like, only finding Wonderbread on the shelf, wonderboy. Duh. Like, maybe some people may actually prefer whole wheat. Duh. Like, maybe some people who don’t care to read about patent nonsense simply want other more relevant and timely news relating to commercial product releases, ya know. Duh. Kinda like people who overuse “Duh”, “Like”, and “Ya know” in communicating, but, hey, if you, like, don’t enjoy the monotony and tedium of constant repetition, like, duh, don’t read the post, ya know, so I don’t. However, as a free American citizen, I can still complain about the selection and quality of articles MDN chooses to post.
maczealot:
It seems as if you’re the only one who’s overusing “Duh”, “Like”, and “Ya know” in communicating. Get up on the wrong side of bed or just generally an angry person? lol
wonderboy:
Obviously, you failed to understand my attempts to object to the repeated posting of absurd twaddle masquerading as actual reports of technological breakthroughs. I meant to highlight the difference between myth and reality, and the emphasis MDN places on the ephemeral using sarcasm.
Are you “happy” now that I have explained it to you? Does my explanation “satisfy” your level of comprehension?
Not one single patent has benefited the consumer or shareholder until it has reached commercial production and acheived consumer approval and adoption. The only people who get excited about unexploited patents are people who have no understanding of what defines commercial relevance.
Ay caramba!: Actually lot’s of IP is sold and/or licensed prior to commercialization — which can have a direct and significant impact on shareholders. And who said anyone was “excited” about this? It’s just another piece of news related to Apple.
Has the definition of news included any and everything known, suspected, or hypthesized of every spectrum, description, and magnitude remotely or possibly associated with or connected to Apple?
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