Apple Inc.

Solidworks Corporation

Christopher N Ryan

John Owen Louch

Kevin James Van Vechten

Patrick L Coffman

Raymond S Sepulveda

Chun Kin Minor Wong

Scott James Forstall

Bob Bradley

Michael M Lee

John Joseph Iarocci

John A Vink

Jeffrey L Robbin

Richard R Dellinger

Jean-Pierre Ciudad

Henri C Lamiraux

Joshua Fagans

Ilya Baran

Ricardo Chin

Aaron Disario

Bradley R M Suinn

George K Colley

William C Conway

An example method includes, at a first electronic device that includes a display, displaying, on the display, a user interface that is associated with an application, the user interface displayed with a control user interface element for changing a display property of the user interface. The method includes, detecting an input directed to the control user interface element. The method also includes that in response to detecting the input, and while continuing to display the user interface, concurrently displaying on the display: a first selectable option for changing the display property of the user interface on the display of the first electronic device, and a second selectable option for requesting display at a second electronic device, distinct from the first electronic device, of a user interface that includes content from the user interface.

Systems and methods for initiating and interacting with a companion-display mode for an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display

Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow activation of, and intuitive interactions with, a companion-display mode for an electronic device. An example method includes: receiving an instruction to operate the first electronic device in a companion-display mode in which user interfaces generated by a second electronic device are displayed at the first electronic device. In response to receiving the instruction to operate in the companion-display mode, the method also includes: concurrently displaying, on the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device: a user interface generated by the second electronic device; and a plurality of user interface objects, including a first user interface object associated with a first function of a plurality of functions for controlling the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device while it is operating in the companion-display mode, and a second user interface object associated with a second function of the plurality of functions.

The subject technology provides a system of devices, at least one of which includes an application configured to receive data directly from another one of the devices. The application is configured to obtain a list of available devices and associated features and provide input options for display based on the list. When one of the input options is selected, the application activates a component and/or an application of the other device for generation of the desired data. When the desired data has been generated by the other device, the generated data is directly input from the other device into the limiting application, without storage of the generated data at the other device, and without operation of the same application on the other device.

Direct input from a remote device

The subject technology provides a system of devices, at least one of which includes an application configured to receive data directly from another one of the devices. The application is configured to obtain a list of available devices and associated features and provide input options for display based on the list. When one of the input options is selected, the application activates a component and/or an application of the other device for generation of the desired data. When the desired data has been generated by the other device, the generated data is directly input from the other device into the running application, without storage of the generated data at the other device, and without operation of the same application on the other device.

When enumerating of a set of content items in a directory in a remote file server, an electronic device provides a request for information associated with the set of content items. The electronic device and the file server may use, respectively, use an OS X&#xae;-based operating system and a Windows&#xae;-based operating system. In response to the request, the file server may access information specifying the set of content items. For example, the information may include maximal access information and finder information for each content item in the set of content items in the directory. Next, the electronic device may receive a response with the requested information from the file server. The providing of the request and the receiving of the response may, respectively, involve single instances of a request and a response, thereby significantly reducing the amount of communication between the electronic device and the file server.

Remote enumeration of a directory

Conditional communication settings may be defined by a user of a communications device to be transmitted with a communication to a receiving device, where the receiving device may be restricted from performing a user-specified type of communication operations with a user-specified contact until the conditional communication settings are satisfied. The conditional communication settings may include a condition value setting, which may be a task to be performed by a recipient, a date and/or time, a location, an operation to be performed by a third party contact, or other suitable criterion. The receiving device may detect whether such condition value setting has been satisfied. Unless the condition value setting has been satisfied, the receiving device may be prevented from performing the user-specified type of communication operation with the user-specified contact.

Conditional communication

Techniques and mechanisms that allow configuration information, applications and/or data to be transferred between computer systems in an automated, or partially automated, manner, which may allow for more efficient transfer as compared to manual transfer. A source computer system may be coupled with a destination computer system directly via a wired or wireless communications channel. Data including, for example, user identification information, network settings, system settings, permissions and/or other data may be transferred from the source computer system to the destination computer system.

Migration of data between computers

Techniques are provided for publishing digital image feeds, where the feeds are automatically created and uploaded to a server along with the images described in the feed, along with techniques for subscribing to digital image feeds, where the feed is downloaded and the images described therein are automatically downloaded and organized. The feeds may be subscribed to and automatically updated.

Publishing and subscribing to digital image feeds

Processing data objects of a two-dimensional drawing includes marking data objects corresponding to annotation, separating the drawing into a plurality of views, and associating each of the data objects corresponding to annotation with one of the views. Separating the drawing into a plurality of views may include constructing a plurality of intersection and proximity graphs and using the graphs to provide a plurality of connected sets, where each set may correspond to one of the views. The border views may be identified by determining which of the views include less than a predetermined number of elements, contain at least two other views, and are not contained in other views.

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Windham, NH, United States of America

Christopher N Ryan