http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/ Engadget Comments for MobileMe media sync detailed in Apple patent application http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/
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So you can resume what you were watching or listening to when go arrive/leave home?
Is it like UPnP/What is UPnP all about?

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...but I do have the theme song. Best dramedy theme song ever?]]>Oct 19th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Good Going Steve Jobs, your kids Gran'kids are going to worship you way down the road...]]>Oct 19th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/
'Unwanted standard iPhone application icons can't be hidden. I'm never going to check stocks.'
How can that be done on WinMo?

WinMo doesn't have standard iPhone apps.

How can you bitch about iPhone OS when it's far superior to WinMo.

I'm not an iPhone freak, but a lot of the features and apps are a million times better than whats on WinMo.

And where is the relevance to the topic?

Maybe a 'Top 10 most requested features for MobileMe' might fit?

I'm sure you don't realise what Apple does.

Take out the most basic features of an iPod/iPhone and market them in an updated version of it.
People buy it then.
Whereas if they just made a perfect phone, they'd struggle to sell it in the future when it updates.

Why doesn't the iPod Touch have a camera?
Cause it's a great gaming device?
No.
Because next time they release a next generation Touch, they stick in a camera.
People go nuts and buy it.]]>Oct 19th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/A number of posts here say that there is prior art. But many here seem to be missing that this is about syncing playback state (among other things...yes). So if I pause the video on my phone, then when i get to my PC I start to watch the video and it automatically remembers where I left off on my phone and starts from that point in the video.

Now that seems like a shit patent to me because there is nothing to it beyond that obvious. Just a basic concept that combines existing concepts and it would have been done by a thousand other companies anyways (if it hasn't already been done). But such is the sorry, sorry, state of the patent system that they may very well have a lock on this for centuries to come (or whatever the damned limit is)

Question: can somebody post explicit examples of prior art for this concept? not just syncing media file (distributing or managing cross device DRM or blah blah) but synchronizing playback state across devices. Be explicit.

Just trying to get a coherent understanding on this point....

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Using a few neat tricks (including a Location Based Service trigger), the 'system' would detect that you have left your primary viewing/listening device (i.e. PC, TV, HiFI - all IP enabled). You could then pickup where you left off on your mobile device. Just as clever was the reverse of this scenario (start watching a clip on your mobile, and pick the rest up on a more convenient device).

Given that everything done there was pushed towards a patent, I'll be surprised if this, as other comments have stated, isn't challenged...]]>Oct 20th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 19th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Anyway, this fantastic idea that Apple is trying to patent is already done by LinuxMCE by ages!!
They are trying to do the same thing that LinuxMCE does trough Internet instead of local LAN network.
By the way, LinuxMCE made the media following you trough your house rooms tracking your bluetooth phone!!

Please Apple, stop!!]]>Oct 19th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/mobileme-media-sync-detailed-in-apple-patent-application/Oct 20th 2009 4:43AM