Apple granted patent on wireless ordering "in the vicinity of an establishment"

Posted by callmeed on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @02:00AM
from the patft.uspto.gov dept.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,072,956&OS=8,072,956&RS=8,072,956

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Re:Apple granted patent on wireless ordering "in the vicinit... by D_Drake on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @02:45AM (#3322951)

Is it just me or does this patent appear to be describing someone using a mouth to send a verbal order to an ear, which is processed by a brain, with the resulting sequence of actions being held in a thought.

Doesn't NFC technology already cover this?

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Re:Apple granted patent on wireless ordering "in the vicinit... by yagibear on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @02:11AM (#3322886)

Why require that preferences be stored on the local server, rather than the wireless client?

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Re:Apple granted patent on wireless ordering "in the vicinit... by callmeed on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:29PM (#3324760)

I wonder if this is a threat to things like Square's Card Case or even Google Wallet.

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Re:Apple granted patent on wireless ordering "in the vicinit... by chrisdew on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @03:40AM (#3323031)

There's prior art - I ordered drinks by SMS in a cinema several years ago.

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