“An Apple patent filing (number 20140006946) has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that gives me hope that we might someday see an Apple, home-based media server as I’ve long wished for,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple Daily Report. “The patent is for a network media device.”
“A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from one or more sources (e.g., a multimedia website or a multimedia server computer) at a first time, stores it to long-term storage within the device and transmits the stored multimedia data to one or more designated multimedia playback devices at a second time,” Sellers reports.
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