“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 38 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“In this particular report we cover a powerful new invention that has come out of the blue,” Purcher reports. “It could apply to a future version of Siri that is designed to work with distributed sensors that a user could place throughout their home, Office or beyond. It’s an advanced reminder system that could notify you that it’s time to take your medications or that you have appointments or meetings in any room equipped with the appropriate sensors.”
“The application has no limits,” Purcher writes. “It could apply to reminding users of TV programing or any other reminder type users deem important. This wild invention coming to light right after Jonathan Ive’s recent statement that Apple is at the beginning of remarkable time, is impeccably timed.”
Much more, including Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
Sounds like the RFID tags that Samsung was using a couple of years ago. Ihnatko was raving about them. Glad this idea is coming to Apple — I hope the customizations that Samsung allowed (phone settings profiles, etc) are permitted as well.
Sound like they patented my wife.
Does your wife become uncommunicative when the Internet line to your house is down?
Perhaps change the voice from “Mother-In-Law” (our wives in a few years) to “Jeeves” or “Alfred”?
Star Trek, here we come!
“Computed and recorded dear.”
It would be great to be able to further customize Siri’s phrases and speech modulation.
Sounds more like Jony has been watching 2001 A Space Odyssey.
siri = HAL
Ive has nothing to do with the development and launch of Siri which was done under Forstall’s tenure. The only thing Ive is responsible for is the uglification of iOS 7 and…the intrusive iBeacon.
iBeacon intrusive? Only if you’re really stupid and let it. You do realise, don’t you, that for it to work you have to go and download apps that make use of it? I’m pretty certain that neither of my iPhones, or my pad, will react in any way to these beacons, because I haven’t enabled them to.
But then, you’re the sort of whiney little bitch who keeps snivelling about iOS 7.
How about you start acting like an adult.
Ive has no idea how to design software nor of the usage habits of ordinary people, which is why he designed the sub-optimal iOS 7 which mimics a kindergarten kid’s coloring book. He doesn’t understand why software has to be usable and that usability should be front and center and should by its nature trump a kid’s coloring book. Coloring is what Ive undertands which is why everything looks whitewashed in iOS 7.
Extrapolating from this inability to take an ordinary user’s habits into account, either he or his team brought out iBeacon which seems like a good idea at first blush until you realise that 99% of people download an app not because they know how to use it or want to use it but because of recommendations from friends and family. Most have no idea how many apps they have downloaded or lost count amidst the clutter of their home screen.
That is until the iBeacon app prompts them with unwanted advertisements that suck up battery life leaving the user wondering why his iPhone has a less than optimal battery. That is the reason why most users disable Parallax, motion animation and other silly gewgaws that Ive designed into iOS 7. He’s a total neophyte in terms of OS design.
Have you sucked enough on the Apple tailpipe yet? Or do you need Ive to blow smoke up your ass?
And you do? Let’s see how iBeacon works out shall we because I believe you will be proved a muppet on this one because you can only project from the existing patterns rather than the lateral thinking that is required to understand how Apple works when producing new ideas. I’m no lover of the graphic elements of iOS7 but it fundamentally works, though with greater options than previous versions that he had little to do with and had sadly stared to stagnate as the texture of stitching took precedence over practical and innovative development. IOS 6 practically made a brick of my iPad which was 3months old at the time so for me despite Icon dislikes iOS7 has restored it to full and indeed far superior usefulness despite a few interface oddities.
I am not against the idea of iBeacon as such but the way it is being implemented is intrusive. When you update your software or restart your iPhone, Bluetooth is enabled by default, whether you want to or not. This is done solely to enable the phone to listen out for iBeacon signals.
Again iOS 7.1 forces iBeacon announcements/advertisements on your iPhone even if the relevant app is not running in the background (ie. closed), which is intrusive because it forces the announcement on to the user’s phone whether the user wants it or not.
It’s the way iBeacon is being implemented in a draconian fashion that suggests that user discretion has been removed to the detriment of user experience.
How about YOU grow up and allow others to have an opinion without resorting to idiotic pejoratives.
Boring AND stupid well done for living up to expectations.
Village
Siri = HER. HAL is SO 2001 Dave.
I see this as a precursor to Siri inhabiting, and eventually becoming, your house. The AI will usefully gauge your moods, anticipate your needs, conduct business for you, read you to sleep. Like HAL 9000, but not insane.
me, I look forward to Siri talking me softly to sleep, reading fairy tales, playing white noise, making dream suggestions, maybe even joining me in some lucid stuff …and every now and then, engage me in some weird philosophical dialogue designed to make me cry just so we can then make up. and yes, i’m pathetic ..it’s part of my charm.
Not even needing another biological human to cycle through the emotional changes provoked by life. Brilliantly conceived! Siri could work miracles, expertly playing our chords of desire to drown out the cacophony. Siri, activate Plato. I wish to converse with him. Oh, and two glasses of red wine, please.
Goodbye Nest!