Apple made several new patent applications that aim at leveling the corporate market for innovations in the field of wireless technology. These patent apps are aimed to leverage wireless positioning capabilities such as Wi-Fi and GPS and to improve functioning of Apple gadgets that use this technology.

The first patent is US Patent 20080125106 and is titled “Wireless communication out of range indication” and in a nutshell would provide an alert when WiFi or mobile signal is in danger of being lost giving the user the opportunity to take “corrective measures” such as logging off or alerting the person or persons that they are communicating with that the conversation needs to be terminated because of impending signal loss

Apple’s own CEO Steve Jobs is credited as one of the inventors in the filing of US Patent 20080122796 titled “Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics.” The patent application relates to Apple’s multi-touch technology and will make the touch screens more reliable and easier to use.

In another wireless invention US Patent 20080125040, that is titled “Location discovery using bluetooth,” Apple developed a method and system for locating objects using a Bluetooth communications protocol.

The final patent filed is simply titled ”Media Player System” and was filed under US Patent 20080123285. This patent describes a method of wirelessly connecting the hand held media player to another device. Kind of like beaming from Palm Pilot to Palm Pilot.

Along with the solar powered iPhone that Apple is said to be in development of, there are some cool changes going on at Apple.