The Cupertino-based company was said to have recently submitted a new patent application that would more closely involve its devices with the WiFi networks of stores comprising the Starbucks chain.
The recent filing, presented to the U.S. Patent Office on December 20th, is a request for legal rights to create and deploy a “wireless system that would allow customers to place an order at a store using a wireless device such as a media player, a wireless personal digital assistant, or a cell phone.”
Oh we wonder what such item(s) currently marketed by Jobs & Co could possibly manage to fit any of three profiles described.
Furthermore, the patent request is for software enhancements that, in addition to making standard beverage requests possible without directly consulting employees working store register counters, allows for Starbucks to maintain “favorite orders” across all shops in the global coffee chain that opt in to the system and share customer data.