Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Apple has won two patents from the US Patent & Trademark Office involving tags on mobile devices.

Patent number 20120062758 involves the relative positioning of devices based on captured images of tags and seems to involve the Places feature of iPhoto.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 2012006068) by the US Patent & Trademark Office for a graphical user interface for music sequence programming.

Now that Apple has unveiled the new iPad, concerns continue to mount over the influx of mobile devices converging on the corporate network: namely whether companies have formal bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs that can handle the increased demand for bandwidth.

Brocade (http://www.brocade.com/index.page) — a company that offers “network solutions that help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a virtualized world where applications and information can reside anywhere” — has revealed the results of a survey of 120 IT decision-makers, which found that:

An Apple patent (number 8135891) for a method and system for transferring button status info between a media player and accessory has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Here’s Apple’s background and summary of the invention: “The present invention relates generally to electrical devices and more particularly to electrical devices such as media players that communicate with accessory devices.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 8135865) by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for synchronizing and transferring digital media items.

One or more media items are received, from a network operating environment, at a first device. A first media database on the first device, including metadata associated with the media items, is synchronized with a second media database on a second device.