Apple Inc.

Curtis Rothert

Peter D Anton

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Myra Mary Haggerty

Paul William Chinn

Roberto G Yepez

Ronnie G Misra

Kelsey Yukio Ho

Christopher K Thomas

Andrew B Cato

Jonathan E Drummond

Benjamin Biron

Weijie Zhang

Imran A Chaudhri

Scott James Forstall

Gary Ian Butcher

Kevin M Lynch

Cahya Adiansyah Masputra

Gregory R Chapman

John Joseph Iarocci

Gordon J Freedman

Ali T Ozer

Richard Warren Schreyer

Neil Gareth Crane

Damien Pascal Sorresso

Lucia Elena Ballard

Henry Graham Mason

Darren S Litzinger

Christopher Marcellino

Charles Srisuwananukorn

Michael Van Milligan

Mark Andrew Piccirelli

David B Myszewski

David Alexander Zarzycki

David William Goodwin

Eric Albert

Joseph Sokol

Matthew G Waston

Thomas Brogan Duffy

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Christopher Patrick Foss

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Wan Si Wan

Jonathan R Dascola

Craig Michael Federighi

Christopher G Wilson

Gregory B Novick

Tyler D Hawkins

Natalia Maric

Eliza Carey Block

David A Schimon

Christopher Paul Saari

Monica Jenkins

Antony J Dzeryn

James B Cary

Jeff Williams

Karen L Bechtel

Gustavo R Chaurais

In an embodiment, a device may include an attention detection service. The attention detection service may monitor various peripheral devices in the device for indications that a user is paying attention to the device. Various clients may register for notification of attention detection and attention lost (attention no longer detected) events, or may poll the service for the events. If a user is not paying attention to the device, it may be possible to take various actions to permit reduced energy consumption.

Attention detection service

The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for limiting notifications on an electronic device. In one example process, data representing a user input can be received by an electronic device. The data representing the user input can include touch data from the touch-sensitive device, ambient light data from an ambient light sensor, intensity data from a contact intensity sensor, and/or motion data from one or more motion sensors. Based on the data, it can be determined whether the user input is a cover gesture over a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device. In response to determining that the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, the electronic device can be put into a DND mode for a predetermined amount of time. While in the DND mode, the electronic device can cease to output some or all notifications.

User interface for limiting notifications and alerts

Certain embodiments of the present invention can detect and evaluate new messages at a coordinating device to determine whether to forward the message to a wearable device. In this manner, a server can reduce a number of devices that it is to communicate a message to, while still allowing the message to be availed to multiple devices. Further, certain embodiments relate to coordinating alerts (e.g., audio or haptic alerts) to reduce redundant alerts of a single message amongst spatially clustered devices.

Message processing by subscriber app prior to message forwarding

An electronic device with a touch-sensitive display can obtain a plurality of alerts associated with dates and times. The device can detect a user input, and in response to the input display a notification interface. The notification interface can include a future notification representing a future alert with a date and time after the current date and time, and a past notification representing a past alert with a date and time before the current date and time. The future and past notifications can be separated by a graphical separator that has an indication of the current time. The future and past alerts correspond to different installed applications.

Reduced-size notification interface

An efficient mechanism for terminating applications of a data processing system is described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a request for exiting from an operating environment of a data processing system, an operating system examines an operating state associated with an application running within the operating environment, where the operating state is stored at a predetermined memory location shared between the operating system and the application. The operating system immediately terminates the application if the operating state associated with the application indicates that the application is safe for a sudden termination. Otherwise, the operating system defers terminating the application if the operating state associated with the application indicates that the application is unsafe for the sudden termination.

Efficient mechanism for terminating applications

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