A new patent application from Apple has been released by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Apple is researching a method where you can share media files as music, video and images as part of an audio, video or data communications connection, during an iPhone call, without losing the original connection. You can send media, but you can also recieve media.
The application is called “Methods and systems for mixing media with communications” and was already filed in november 2007.
The present invention permits a user to initiate a communications operation with a recipient, or to receive a communications operation initiated by another individual, and to transmit a selected media item over the same communication path used for the communications operation without terminating the communications operation. This combined transmission can occur regardless of the type of media selected by the user to be added to the communications operation.
For video calling you obviously need a front facing camera. There have been rumors telling us there could be a front camera implemented in the upcoming iPhone.
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