Apple patent application involves theft-alarm for phones

Apple patent application involves theft-alarm for phones Suppose an iPhone had the same as acar alarm. Would a loud, annoying alarm sound every time a thief ran served by your ipod? Or would the alarm ring out if a stranger just attemptedto check the phone?

These are questions Apple explores at the patent application filed today. Titled "Acceleration-based theft detection system for portable gadgets," the application form involves a smartphone deciphering what forms of movement arise on top of a phone robbery.

In line with the patent filing, the smartphone's alarm is usually activated once it decides, "a theft Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case condition is present." To work out this "theft condition," the machine relies on its built-in accelerometer -- which is the same tool may well tell the actual way in users are holding their phone. May well use software to make the decision if for example your movements recorded through the accelerometer fit the "profile sign of theft."

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Apple won 34 patent awards a while back, including patents covering 3D video apps within the mobile device, tips to play stored content onApple TV, and a procedure to change backgrounds on Apple's iChat videoconferencing feature.

The granting in a patent, however, doesn't invariably mean a marketable technology will result.