Apple patented the Autograph! Or at least the digital autograph. Apple have been granted a patent on Tuesday covering a method by which an author can digitally sign his or her autograph onto readers' copies of e-books.
Digital autographs or signatures are not new many postal companies use them years. It all seems a bit pointless if you ask me but Apple do love their patents!
Digital autographs or signatures are not new many postal companies use them years. It all seems a bit pointless if you ask me but Apple do love their patents!
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“Yes, it seems that the old method of hearing an author read their work and then waiting in line for a quick chat and a signature on the inside of your physical, paper book is too passé for Apple, which wants to remove all of those steps in favour of a single, boring, faceless data dump.
According to the text of US Patent No. 8,880,602, first filed in 2012 and published on Tuesday, authors would use their devices to create signatures that are associated with their personal online accounts and the books they have written.
They could then, with the touch of a button (or swipe of a screen), upload the signature data to all devices in the area containing a copy of the book. This could provide multiple readers with an "autographed" e-book instantly and save the author the trouble of shaking hands and saying "thank you" a few dozen times.
The system would use authentication certificates on both devices, which would both verify that the autograph data is legitimate when it gets sent to the user device and when copies of the book are downloaded from the Apple book store.”
“Yes, it seems that the old method of hearing an author read their work and then waiting in line for a quick chat and a signature on the inside of your physical, paper book is too passé for Apple, which wants to remove all of those steps in favour of a single, boring, faceless data dump.
According to the text of US Patent No. 8,880,602, first filed in 2012 and published on Tuesday, authors would use their devices to create signatures that are associated with their personal online accounts and the books they have written.
They could then, with the touch of a button (or swipe of a screen), upload the signature data to all devices in the area containing a copy of the book. This could provide multiple readers with an "autographed" e-book instantly and save the author the trouble of shaking hands and saying "thank you" a few dozen times.
The system would use authentication certificates on both devices, which would both verify that the autograph data is legitimate when it gets sent to the user device and when copies of the book are downloaded from the Apple book store.”
. Cmon Apple - stop your lawyers spouting this bull.
