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The latest Patent finding uncover some interesting new features!. According Apple’s filing on feb 21st 08 the iPhone could offer an automated home screen providing local weather,time,maps & contacts based on Device’s physical location. The time on most phones works like this but mostly the update is done via Network. This new Patent shows how much further this concept can be taken.
Revealed by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office this week, Apple’s filing dated Feb. 21, 2008 for “Transitional Data Sets” describes an invention that would display specific applications automatically populated based on dynamic factors like location. The application notes that conventional user interfaces on mobile devices are clunky and cluttered. The new invention would aim to cut down on the number of icons by giving users what they need at a particular moment in time.
According to other patent filings revealed this week, Few more interesting features are discovered :
- A speech to text feature, which would allow users to speak to a mobile device and have their words translated into text. The application states it could be used for composing e-mails, SMS messages, word processing, data entry, or instant messaging.
- A method for transferring and scaling images between devices. For example, images from a computer sent for display on a TV would be scaled to display properly on the secondary device.
- A follow-up to a patent application revealed by AppleInsider in June, in which Apple describes a wireless sensory system that aims to quantify actions or events that can currently be measured only qualitatively. These events would include the strength of a punch or what happened to a delivery package that caused its contents to break.
- An event-based contact list. This would allow an organizer of an event to create a Web site on a server that would grant participants the ability to add and retrieve information from the site, including the sharing of contact information.
