http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/ Engadget Comments for Apple patent application details instant product research via iPhone, more NFC possibilities 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/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
"Meh"

More like "HAHAHAHHAHHAHAA, Apple is so cute"
Sorry, fruities, every smartphone out there that can run Apps has been capable of doing this for quite a while.

Prior art trumps your lame patent.
]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Meh to the max.. Can Apple patent something that's already available in many Android and iPhone applications?? >_>]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
What's that little box near the left side of the earpiece? Could it be the LCD mini display we saw leaked earlier today?]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/It's Meh. With big M.

This has been available for years with barcodes, it just hasn't cought on. Only thing new is that that they have replaces barcodes with NFC.

If even that is new. I bet there are some prior arts out there.

The product reviews is a twist that wont happen. Shops have less than half of stock praised, and rest is crap. Anybody think shops are going to start give independent reviews in shops. They wouldnt be able to sell the crappy ones, even if they don't provide reviews for them the lack of reviews shouts out to consumer hes going to buy a crappy one. No way is a shopowner going to take a loss on those items for selling good ones.]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Right back at cha... ;-)]]>Jul 9th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Then again, its just a way to spend more money...]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
I do a lot of product reviews, especially for other people.

I think this would be nice.]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/wait wait wait.
Don't both the iPhone and Android already have apps like this?
I have a barcode scanner on my phone that looks up reviews and pricing online.
Also Google is already in the action of making Google maps extend to inside places and bing is designed for reviews based on location.
I'm not sure I'm seeing something new here. I thought both Apple and Google were doing this. ]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/"That would apparently be done using either NFC (or near field communication) OR a simple barcode scan"

no one is saying they are the same thing, I think corylulu is just pointing out there are already barcode apps.]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
Not exactly different worlds in my opinion. Different interfaces, yes, but both are essentially performing a search for the same ID/code, only the way they obtain the code is different and that method of data exchange in itself is already a patented technology. If Apple thinks this is enough of a distinction, they might as well just pay up on the NTP patent suit, because wireless email transmission is still email transmission, the message data is the same, its only transferred via a different medium. I could see patenting an automatic triggering mechanism that defines the distances and other semantics that make the experience unique, and maybe thats what this is in the details, but click a button and hold it near seems much to similar to click a button and point it at...
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= not patent worthy =]]>Jul 10th 2010 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
Yeah ... hasn't this been around for a few years with Android?

Maybe I didn't get it but the iPhone is going to act like a barcode scanner and access data stored in a database. How can you get a patent on that? That's WHAT a barcode scanner does.]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Apple is going nuts.

Soon they will rule the whole tech market.
I mean the tablet market...wait
the mp3 player market.....wait
Premier online digital media distribution service......wait
phone market.......not complete dominance, but damn
Computer market.... guess not (yet)]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/computer market...nvm]]>Jul 9th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
Ba-da-chhh]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
That being said, I wonder if it's possible to patent the patent submission process, so noone can ever file a patent again except me.]]>Jul 9th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
Yeah...........and then they could do the same to Apple......in which case Apple would be hosed.]]>Jul 9th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaiKsYUdvg

it knows who u are ....it shows personalized services, information, ads etc. ... but more subtle and not scary like in the movie of course ;) ]]>Jul 9th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/USPTO has not granted it (nor will they). Apple just filed it Jan 2009 so it's 100% clear that gobs of prior art exist.]]>Jul 9th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/Jul 9th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
still in the application process ]]>Jul 9th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/09/apple-patent-application-details-instant-product-research-via-ip/
"apple makes me sick"
how can people here be so stupid?
this is how all businesses are forced to work. complain about the patent office.
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