The upcoming iOS 7 devices, spanning iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, will be able to easily and quickly share volumes of files and they'll be sporting zero-border display screens.

These exciting features are detailed in new Apple inventions reported recently by PatentlyApple.

In a freshly approved patent, the tech giant will soon introduce a technology that replicates the S-Beam functions that Samsung has deployed with Galaxy smartphones. The Apple version, however, is spicing up the simple file-transfer task that is made possible by near-field communication (NFC) chips.

"Apple's solution works between a Mac and iPhone and provides editing software to crop, scale and adjust images," the report said.

PatentlyApple indicated too that the new device function was finalised January 2010 or some two years after Samsung showcased a different way of sharing file between two Galaxy smartphones - by tapping them close.

The new technology will also employ new sets of sensors, which remind of the Galaxy S4, "for sensing the media content of the iDevice that may have an active window that highlights particular media content."

Armed with the new features, future iPhones and iPads will be installed with haptic notification capabilities that trigger an alert through vibration once a file-transfer task has been completed.

In the other patent, Apple appears working on device screens minus margins on four edges, which eliminates handsets' physical parts such as front cam sensor, speaker and the capacitive buttons.

"The invention is about a system and methods to extending the overall display area for a device. At or near the borders of a device, pixel pitch between adjacent pixels may be increased such that overall pixel placement may be provided closer to a border of a display of a device," PatentlyApple said.

The new design approach hints of bezel-free Apple gadgets in the near future, which the report will apply not only to upcoming iterations of the iPhone and iPad but also of Mac computers.

For example, this technology paves the way for iOS smartphones and tablets with large screens without adding unnecessary bulks.