Apple Inc.

Adam M Driscoll

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Stephen J Rhee

Patrick L Coffman

Robert William Mayor

Guy Leslie Tribble

Lukas Michael Marti

Yannick L Sierra

Sriram Hariharan

Brent Michael Ledvina

Michael P Dal Santo

Julien F Freudiger

Raghunandan K Pai

Scott Lopatin

Kyle C Brogle

Langford M Wasada

Lili Cao

Tommy Rochette

Erik C Neuenschwander

Siva Ganesh Movva

Jeffrey Michael Bartunek

Krishna M Behara

Elliot S Briggs

Samuel B Schaevitz

Matthew B Ball

Patrick Thomas Dillon

Jay N Bruins

Emmanuel Lalande

Christian Schroeder

Munish K Poonia

Brandon J Van Ryswyk

Jessica Aranda

Bradley Joel Jensen

Tunc Ertan

Christina Selle

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Ozgur Ekici

Swadesh Bhattacharya

Christopher C Foster

Charles D Deets

Sean M Meiners

Michael C Laster

Siraj T Abidi

Maria Ryen

Shuli Zhou

Mads N Paulin

Eric S Kinnear

Nicholas D Shourounis

Ernst Thomas Erdmann

Techniques, described herein, include solutions for anonymous geospatial evaluation via a wireless network. For example, a user equipment (UEs) may monitor a current location of UE for entry into a bounding box associated with a geographic area. Upon entry, the UE may generate and report an anonymous presence indicator to a bounding box server via the wireless network. The anonymous presence indicator may include information describing an instance of a UE being located within the bounding box; however, the anonymous presence indicator may not include information indicating an identifier of UE and/or a user of UE. The UE may report another anonymous presence indicator upon expiration of a re-report timer and/or upon entry into another bounding box.

Systems, methods, and devices for anonymous geospatial popularity evaluation

An application can specify a location service authorization type to be enforced by a mobile device. After the user authorizes the location service through an authorization dialog, the application can receive location service according to the authorization type. A first authorization type allows the application to receive continuous location updates and location events from a location service on the mobile device only when the application is in use. A second authorization type allows the application to always receive continuous location updates and location events when the application is running in a foreground or background. A status indicator can be displayed to indicate the authorization associated with a received location service.

Location service authorization and indication

A location control subsystem is provided that allows a user of an electronic device to define the granularity used to provide location coarseness. A user can define a coarse location granularity for an application. When a coarse device location is reported to an application, the location can be provided with at least a minimum degree of variable specificity based on the selected location coarseness. When an application is granted a coarse location, the application is to interpret the provided location indicating that the user may be anywhere within a geographic region of variable specificity, as opposed to being close to a center point with a horizontal accuracy based on the precision of the location fix, as when a fine granularity location is provided. In addition to reducing the spatial resolution of the location that is reported to the application, the temporal resolution may also be reduced.

User selectable location granularity

An application can specify a location service authorization type to be enforced by a mobile device. After the user authorizes the location service through an authorization dialog, the application can receive location service according to the authorization type. A first authorization type allows the application to receive continuous location updates and location events from a location service on the mobile device only when the application is in use. A second authorization type allows the application to always receive continuous location updates and location events when the application is running in a foreground or background. The text of the authorization dialog can be customized by the application to provide more detail on how the location data will be used by the application.

Systems, methods, and program products for determining a location of a mobile device using a location application programming interface (API) are described. A mobile device can receive an input requesting the mobile device to monitor entry into and exit from a significant location. The mobile device can call a start-monitoring instance function of an object of a location manager class as declared in the API to start monitoring, and call a stop-monitoring instance function of the object as declared in the API to stop monitoring. The mobile device can store the entry and exit, or provide a record of the entry or exit to a function that is conformant to the API for performing various tasks.

Location application program interface

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Adam M Driscoll