With the endless legal battles between Apple and Samsung, expect more court cases every time a new technology is introduced in the smartphone, tablet or personal computer market.

One emerging technology with a potential for a future patent violation lawsuit is Samsung's SAMI or Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interaction. The reason that SAMI could be the target of a subsequent court case is that the man developing it for the South Korean tech giant is Luc Julia, director of Apple's Siri project for about 10 months.

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But definitely, SAMI is not a rip-off of Siri because the former has the capability to connect other devices and show the result on one device in one app.

Mr Julia showed how SAMI works by putting on a Fitbit and a heart monitor. He then weighed himself on a connected scale, ran around the stage to mimic an exercise and then asked SAMI how he was doing.

SAMI informed Mr Julia that he reached his daily exercise goals. There was no need for him to launch Fitbit to monitor his everyday activity and launch a second app to check on his weight. If his performance is sort of sluggish, SAMI would admonish Mr Julia to train more or take of break.

SAMI will use the data sourced from other companies, normalize it and attempt to present it in a format that the average user would want to or expect it to.

But don't expect to have SAMI in your next purchase of a Samsung device. It would probably be three to five years before it reaches the consumer. That would also mean, a lawsuit from Apple would likely be far from the current horizon.

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