A new patent application filed by Apple was published today by the USPTO. Titled "Offline Personal Assistant," the filing would seem to indicate that Apple is considering adding an offline mode to Siri; this would allow the virtual personal assistant to handle certain tasks while the user is not connected to the internet. Currently, when Siri is spoken to by an iPhone user, the information request is sent to Apple's servers where it is converted into text. Once the proper response is obtained by a backend server, it is sent to the user's iOS device.

While current iPhone ...


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