Apple Inc.

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Christopher S Linn

Keith Stattenfield

John Joseph Iarocci

Marc Jason Krochmal

Jonathan M Grynspan

Alexander R Ledwith

David Alex Carter

Jacques Anthony Vidrine

Steven J Falkenburg

Simon P Cooper

Viktor Miladinov

Garett R Nell

Peter Kiehtreiber

Braden Jacob Thomas

Scott Joseph Adler

Randy D Saldinger

Alexander J Dunn

José Angel Castillo Sánchez

Yan J Arrouye

Pavel Cisler

Christopher Brooke Sharp

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Eric Olaf Carlson

Nicholas M Fraioli

Cameron Stuart Birse

Donald Matthew Firlik

Richard F Murphy

Eric S Brown

Cindy M Barrett

Timothee Geoghegan

Jaques P Gasselin De Richebourg

Christopher C Jensen, Jr

Mikhail Gonodanov

Andrew Roger Whalley

Vipul Ved Prakash

David Rahardja

Maciej Stachowiak

Samuel M Weinig

John Martin Hörnkvist

Douglas R Davidson

David Salim

Robert Bradley

Kevin S Perry

Douglas R Edmonson

Jason J Ivan

Christopher Blumenberg

Gregory B Novick

Bob Bradley

Dallas Blake De Atley

Darin Benjamin Adler

Cyril De La Cropte De Chanterac

Jason Clay Beaver

Kartik R Venkatraman

Lun Cui

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Donald Dale Melton

Christopher C Jensen

Curtis Galloway

Toby Paterson

Varaprasad V Lingutla

Aaron M Sigel

John-Peter E Cafaro

Julien Oster

Lala Dutta

Robert J Kendall-Kuppe

Matthew D Perkins

David P Remahl, Jr

Chelsea J LeBlanc

Subha U Gollakota

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for creating and providing reminders that involve an activity states of an application on a device. An activity state can correspond to a particular view within an application, e.g., a view that was reached after several inputs from a user. A user can provide a specification of an activity state in a variety of ways, e.g., providing a reminder command while the application is executing in the foreground with the desired activity state or by voice commands that specify the activity state. A user can provide one or more trigger criteria. Once the reminder is triggered, the specified activity state can be provided to the user.

Creation of reminders using activity state of an application

The described embodiments transfer an activity from a source electronic device to a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives activity information describing an activity performed in a first application at the source electronic device, determines an activity identifier for the activity information, and broadcasts an activity advertisement comprising the activity identifier. Upon receiving the activity advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that is associated with the first application is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device requests extended activity data from the source electronic device. The source electronic device responds by sending extended activity data from the first application to the companion electronic device. Then, the companion electronic device uses the extended activity data to configure the second application and commences performing the activity with the second application at the companion electronic device.

Dynamic types for activity continuation between electronic devices

In some implementations, a computing device can generate user input correction suggestions based on the user's context. For example, the user's context can include content that the user has open or has recently opened on the computing device or another computing device. For example, when the user opens an item of content, the computing device can generate a context dictionary that includes words, phrases, etc., that describe the opened content. When the user provides input (e.g., text, speech, etc.) the computing device can use the context dictionary to generate input correction suggestions. The computing device can synchronize the context dictionary with other computing devices that the user may be using so that the user's context on one device can be used by another device to generate input correction suggestions.

Correcting input based on user context

A technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the identified applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.

System and method for downgrading applications

Disclosed herein is a technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.

A device may comprise at least one wireless transceiver, a memory configured to store a local pasteboard, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive local selections of data to be placed on a local pasteboard, broadcast advertisements indicating that the local data is on the local pasteboard, and wirelessly transmit the local data to remote device pasteboards. The processor may also be configured to receive advertisements indicating that remote data is available on remote pasteboards of other devices, request the remote data in response to a paste command, wirelessly receive the remote data, and paste the remote data.

Copy and paste between devices

This application relates to techniques that adjust the sleep states of a computing device based on proximity detection and predicted user activity. Proximity detection procedures can be used to determine a proximity between the computing device and a remote computing device coupled to the user. Based on these proximity detection procedures, the computing device can either correspondingly increase or decrease the amount power supplied to the various components during either a low-power sleep state or a high-power sleep state. Additionally, historical user activity data gathered on the computing device can be used to predict when the user will likely use the computing device. Based on the gathered historical user activity, deep sleep signals and light sleep signals can be issued at a time when the computing device is placed within a sleep state which can cause it to immediately enter either a low-power sleep state or a high-power sleep state.

Techniques for adjusting computing device sleep states

A connection manager manages connections for associated user devices by determining whether an incoming connection has been answered at a user device, and if so then generating and transmitting silencing commands to associated user devices using first and second wireless communication modes, with one mode being faster. Connections can comprise phone calls, and modes can comprise push and Bluetooth&#xae; messaging. The connection manager can instruct device outputs to provide connection alerts, limited to visual alerts when an associated user device is active, listen for associated user device communications, and instruct device outputs to stop providing alerts when a silencing command is received. Further, a connection manager can receive a signal regarding a headset status, route an outside connection from a phone to the headset when the headset is active or to another device when the headset is not active, detect a change in headset status, and reroute the connection accordingly.

Multi-device call notification silencing

Activity continuation between electronic devices

The described embodiments augment an activity performed in a first application at a source electronic device using a controller at a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives controller information describing a controller that the activity performed in the first application accepts controller data from, determines a controller identifier for the controller information, and broadcasts a controller advertisement comprising the controller identifier. Upon receiving the controller advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that can provide the controller data is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device establishes a cooperative-activity communication channel with the source electronic device. The companion electronic device uses the cooperative-activity communication channel to provide controller data to the source electronic device. The source electronic device provides the controller data to the first application to cause a corresponding action to be performed.

Companion application for activity cooperation

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Christopher S Linn