It appears that four of Apple's patent applications were published yesterday.  All four have to do with media and two are directed towards the indomitable iPod.  For all you "Pod Patent Watchers" out there, you are probably not surprised at Patent publication 2006/0168351 entitled: Wireless synchronization between media player and host device.  Since everyone and their favorite speculative analyst has predicted that the next iPod will have some sort of wireless capabilities.  In case you are curious here's the abstract from the patent application.

Improved techniques for interaction between a host computer (e.g., personal computer) and a media player are disclosed. According to one embodiment, interaction between a host device (e.g., host computer) and a media player can be performed over a wireless channel. The interaction over the wireless channel can be used to automatically synchronize media contents stored on the media player with media contents stored on the host device. According to another embodiment, interaction between a host device and a media player, such as automatic synchronization of media contents stored on a media player with media contents stored on a host device, can be restricted. In still another embodiment, synchronization can be automatically performed when the media player is placed in a docking station that supports wireless communications.

Below is the list of the four Apple patent application published yesterday.

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