{"id":7687,"date":"2010-01-04T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2010-01-04T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:17:11","slug":"apple-has-filed-patent-for-latitude-alike-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/apple-has-filed-patent-for-latitude-alike-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple has Filed Patent for Latitude-alike App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has filed for a map-based app that looks a tad like Latitude. Of course, nothing concrete except for filing the patent. However, you can understand why they rejected Google Latitude app when you see this diagram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7688\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/apple-has-filed-patent-for-latitude-alike-app\/500x_applelatpatent\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"500x_applelatpatent\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?fit=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7688 aligncenter\" title=\"500x_applelatpatent\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?resize=500%2C426\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent.jpg?resize=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It does look a little bit like Latitude except that it has &#8220;Apple Map&#8221;. In another patent digram, it shows GPS satellite (I think), Telephone towers and a phone. This should be how the location of the phone is determined.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing new here. Although Apple has always never fail to wow the world with their clean and nice apps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/apple-has-filed-patent-for-latitude-alike-app\/500x_applelatpatent2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"500x_applelatpatent2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?fit=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?fit=500%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7689 aligncenter\" title=\"500x_applelatpatent2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?resize=500%2C426\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/500x_applelatpatent2.jpg?resize=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5438663\/apple-lets-you-get-stalky-with-google-latitude+esque-patent\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for More Information on Apple&#8217;s patent<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5438663\/apple-lets-you-get-stalky-with-google-latitude+esque-patent\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has filed for a map-based app that looks a tad like Latitude. Of course, nothing concrete except for filing the patent. However, you can understand why they rejected Google Latitude app when you see this diagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5,6,14],"tags":[43,1714],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-mobile","category-pda","category-techie","tag-apple","tag-location-based"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-1ZZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}