Apple Files Life Streaming Tech Patent, Could Affect Smartphone Use

By David Tobia
September 6, 2012

Apple has filed a patent titled “Life Streaming,” intended to give consumers the ability to use a “life recorder” to easily record and publish every day experiences using both video and audio components.
“A life recorder is a recording device that continuously captures life experiences, including unanticipated life experiences, in video and/or audio recordings,” details a post on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website.
Without having to even hit record, users could capture video, audio and/or photos.
Since most smartphones are equipped with audio, video and photography features, the life recorder could help better utilize these devices by recording, publishing and sharing as a live feed.
“By indexing and storing life recordings, a life recorder may search for and acquire life recordings generated by itself or another life recorder, thereby allowing life experiences to be shared minutes or even years later,” notes the abstract.
“In some embodiments, recordings generated by a life recorder may be analyzed in real-time and automatically pushed to one or more target devices. The ability to automatically and instantaneously push life recordings as live feeds to one or more target devices allows friends and family to experience one’s life experience in real-time.”

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