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US20140085334 - Apple applies for patent on transparent texting

There's an app called Text Vision that has been approved on the iOS App Store since early 2010.
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Sharing digital content - Delivering video to a selected device (Google) - Patent Applicatio...

Apple’s AirTunes protocol (now know as AirPlay) was introduced in 2004. It lets users stream audio (and later video) from one device to another. An example is streaming songs from an iTunes library on …
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Synchronizing files - Distributed Storage (Citrix) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST

Google Chrome has the ability to download webpages (files) related to the current one pre-emptively. I think this covers "selecting a set of files which is related to a particular file." From 2011: …
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Synchronizing files - Distributed Storage (Citrix) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST

From the request, it sounds like this is a patent for predictive caching: "trying to solve the problem of having much more stored in the cloud than you want to dedicate space to on the client" T …
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Mobile ads - Location-based based messages (from a self-proclaimed "Internet visionary") - P...

Like most modern smartphones and tablets, Apple iOS devices have used many of the methods in this patent application for years. For the location aspect, Apple filed US Patent #8,396,485 on 9 Nov 201 …
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Mobile ads - Location-based based messages (from a self-proclaimed "Internet visionary") - P...

The application also contains a claim for using RFID to get the location of a device: "2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer receives the data via a radio frequency identification tag of …
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Online Advertisement - CAPTCHA test including an advertisement (IBM) - Patent Application - ...

The idea of advertisements as CAPTCHAs is not new. For example, Solve Media filed a patent for this in 2010. However, I am not sure whether they have the additional complexity of customizing the ads f …
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