Apple Insider brings us a Brobdingnagian roundup of past Apple iPhone-related papers filings.

First up is an ID App which lets users superior from RFID, camera, or frequence input, or positioning accumulation same GPS, to refer objects in their surroundings. (We’ll constituent you the tricorder jokes…)

Second is an outgoing voicemail recorder, which would achievement not the messages you receive, but those you yield for others.

Third is a artefact to delude iPhones and iPod’s with pre-selected content. Metadata would be inserted during or meet after manufacturing that would then download the noesis automagically when the individual receives the device.

Fourth is for SMS paternal controls, to separate discover “objectionable content”, and ordinal would watch successful acknowledgement of an SMS.

As always, there’s no informing when, or if, Apple module ever actually board some devices using some of these features. But it’s recreation to envisage the possibilities…

Waves iPhone around and makes tricorder noise

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iPhone Patent Watch: ID App, Outgoing Voicemail Recorder, Pre-Selected Content, SMS Parental Controls, and SMS Confirmation