Apple has acquired 18 patents related to "axis-based user interface technology," the intellectual property's former owner Maya-Systems announced yesterday.
According to Maya-Systems, which developers content-management technologies, the companies signed the deal in the third quarter of 2012. Apple acquired only a portion of the company's axis-based user interface technology.
Maya-Systems' axis-based technologies allows developers to group files around a given axis. In some cases, that can mean timelines. The technology is available in the company's IAmOrganized program, which provides file management and cloud storage.
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That cloud-storage element is making some folks across the Web speculate that Apple might be working on cloud-based projects, and will incorporate Maya-Systems' technologies into its online products, like iCloud.
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by Don Reisinger via CNET
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