Patently Apple points to a new patent application from Apple which surfaced this morning in the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) database pertaining to a “database message builder” which might be Apple’s take on unified, platform-agnostic social sharing. “The user can publish the message to a target application or network resource (e.g., a social networking site)”, Apple writes in a summary of the patent application. The document describes tokens which are replaced with the structured data prior to publishing the message. In plain English, tokens are basically photos, location data, videos and other structured data one can embed in status updates. In fact, Apple’s solutions is a ubiquitous one and could easily support other micro-blogging platforms and publishing to web sites…
