Apple patent involves iPhone and short range wireless networks
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 15, 2008 at 3:03pm
The iPhone can already playback video, browse the Internet, and place phone calls, but a new Apple filing at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office by Apple hints that the communications device may “one day take your lunch order and serve as a tour guide at the local zoo,” reports AppleInsider.
The concept calls for a short-range wireless network comprised of a central server and one or more wireless routers, such as AirPort Extreme WiFi base stations, that merchants or attraction organizers could install within their venues, the article adds. Included on the central server would be a proprietary software-based application (or “iPhone server”) capable of interfacing and serving up customized information and applications to Apple media devices devices that come within range of the network. In some cases, software on the server could interact with software on a user’s media device, such as an iPhone or iPod touch, to allow the menu to be customized for a that user, adds AppleInsider.
The inventor is Michael Rosenblatt.
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