It's apparently Apple Day here at SchaeffersResearch.com. Earlier today, Mark Fightmaster provided a follow-up to the "I Am Rich" iPhone application, while Andrea Kramer provided insight into an "overweight" initiation for AAPL shares at Credit Suisse. Inadvertently jumping on the bandwagon, I stumbled across a story over at Ars Technica, detailing a new Apple patent that could put my aspirations of owning a new Blackberry Thunder (RIMM) in the rear-view mirror.

The patent, filed earlier this year, was published yesterday and details plans for remote access to media items from a remote device. I immediately wondered why Apple (AAPL: sentiment, chart, options) hadn't already included such a feature in their 3G iPhone, or their iPod Touch, as it would have sealed the deal for me on the spot. You see, I have more than 200-some-odd gigabytes of music and multimedia files on my home PC (MP3s, movies, home movies, etc.). They don't make an iPod or iPhone anywhere near the capacity for lugging around all this media.

However, if an iPhone were capable of accessing my collection remotely, the worries of "What am I in the mood for today?" would quickly evaporate. But what happens if a call comes in while listening or watching? Ars details the scenario:

"According to Apple, if you were using an iPhone to stream music from home but you received a phone call, the data transmission from your music library could be paused or stopped altogether. And, if the quality of the connection is poor or your bandwidth is low, the device would be able to prioritize different media items based on their size."