Wonder if apple elected the peer to patent program for this. I suspect NO F*ING WAY
;) Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 T.415.947.8170 x800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Batty Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:08 PM To: Mike Liebhold Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Apple patents "dynamic presention oflocation-specific information " There should be plenty of prior art on this - we did multiple applications that fit this description at Ubisense well before 2007 (2003 onwards). I'll send it on to the Ubisense guys as they will no doubt have a strong interest in challenging this. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote: Hmmm - this demands closer inspection. "United States Patent Application 20090063293, entitled Dynamic Presentation of Location-Specific Information, seeks to patent "improved approaches to allow a portable electronic device to dynamically present location-specific information while the portable electronic device is at a predetermined location... In one embodiment, the portable electronic device has a display that can display the location-specific information and has wireless capabilities for use in receiving the location-specific information from the server. The location-specific information can, for example, augment other information that is to be presented on the display. In one embodiment, the location-specific information can be information pertaining to a media item being played in an establishment, such as a store, where the portable electronic device is located." [ full patent text here: http://bit.ly/wYHme ] comments? _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org -- Peter Batty - President, Spatial Networking W: +1 303 339 0957 M: +1 720 346 3954 Blog: http://geothought.blogspot.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1990 - Release Date: 03/09/09 07:14:00
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