Apple Inc.

Daniel Ben Pollack

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Yan Yang

Pierre Jonathan De Filippis

Justin N Wood

Gregory B Novick

Tyler D Hawkins

David C Donley

Julien A Poumailloux

Christopher M Garrido

Berkat S Tung

Craig P Dooley

Aroon Pahwa

Gokul P Thirumalai

David T Wilson

Todd Allan Shortlidge

James C Grandy

Karthick Santhanam

Hsien-Po Shiang

Joe S Abuan

Hyeonkuk Jeong

Alexander R Ledwith

Christopher C Jensen

Roberto Garcia

Jose A Lozano Hinojosa

Nelson M Leduc

Erik Vladimir Ortega Gonzalez

Bradley F Patterson

Kevin Arthur Robertson

Jingyao Zhang

John Joseph Iarocci

Andrew H Vyrros

Amit K Vyas

Jonathan Jay Andrews

Thomas P Devanneaux

Bhaskar P Sarma

Ryan W Baker

Robert D Butler

Alan C Dye

Eric Lance Wilson

Kevin Will Chen

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Joshua H Shaffer

Ray Ling Chang

Paul W Salzman

Eliza Carey Block

Kevin J Lindeman

David A Schimon

Qian Sun

Ziv Wolkowicki

Robert Y Loh

Patrick Robert Burns

Vu H Chiem

Dylan Ross Edwards

Marc Jason Krochmal

Darin Benjamin Adler

Justin Edward Santamaria

Paul William Chinn

Ming Jin

Scott Lopatin

Matthew Scott Klahn

Tommy Rochette

Jonathan E Drummond

Gobind Johar

Grant Ritchie

Eric S Brown

Mithilesh Kumar

Austin Marusco

Aniket A Zamwar

Hue Duc Tran

Matthew Elliott Shepherd

Philomena F Lobo

Gaurav Kapoor

Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

David Michael Chan

Joshua V Graessley

Vitalii Kramar

Padmavathy Bhooma

Anand Ramadurai

Lauren Elise Tappana

Darren S Litzinger

Xudong Liu

Bob Bradley

David L Biderman

Gianpaolo Fasoli

Dazhong Zhang

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

Hervé Sibert

Kit-Man Wan

Alexander Barraclough Brown

Matthew C Lucas

Sudhakar N Mambakkam

Jeffrey Thomas Davey

Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Hannah S Story

Varaprasad V Lingutla

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

Alexis Allison Iskander

Jonathon Sodos

Alejandro A Rodriguez

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, participant devices in a conferencing session may be provided with the ability to expel one or more other participant devices from the conferencing session, even when the participant device(s) are not hosts or cohosts of the conferencing session. A participant device may be expellable by another participant device based on a connection mechanism by which the participant device is connected to the conferencing session, and/or based on an amount of time since the participant device joined the conferencing session.

Electronic conferencing

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, an electronic device may obtain a service-specific alias that is specific to a device-identified set of services. The service-specific alias may be separate from an account alias for an account and configured to allow or deny communications to one or more devices associated with the account via the set of services. In one or more implementations, the service-specific alias is associated with a conferencing service and a conferencing session. An initiating user can provide an invitation to the conferencing session with the service-specific alias, so that participants can contact the initiating user via the service-specific alias for permission to join the conferencing session (e.g., without revealing the permanent contact information of the initiating user). In this way, the privacy of the initiating user can be preserved.

Aspects of the subject technology provide for shared experience sessions within a group communications session such as a video call. The shared experience session may be, as one example, a co-watching session in which the participants in the call watch a video together while in the call. Encrypted shared state data may be exchanged between the participant devices, with which the participant devices can provide synchronized and coordinated output of shared experience data for the shared experience session of the group communications session.

Encrypted shared state for electronic conferencing

A device implementing a system for packet loss management may include a memory and at least one processor configured to identify a plurality of categories of packets provided for transmission to an electronic device. The at least one processor may be further configured to determine a respective packet loss value for a respective category of the plurality of categories of packets. The at least one processor may be further configured to identify a particular category of the plurality of categories of packets for which the determined respective packet loss value satisfies a packet loss condition. The at least one processor may be further configured to adjust subsequent transmission of packets in the particular category of packets based at least in part on the packet loss condition being satisfied by the determined respective packet loss value for the particular category of packets.

Per-packet type packet loss management

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a server may receive a request to contact an account via a service, the request including a service-specific alias for the account. The service-specific alias may be configured for contact with one or more devices associated with the account via a set of services. The server may allow or deny contact with the one or more devices associated with the account via the service, based on whether the service is included in the set of services for the service-specific alias. In one or more implementations, the service is an electronic conferencing service.

Techniques are disclosed relating to multiway communications. In some embodiments, a first electronic device initiates a multiway call between a plurality of electronic devices and exchanges a first secret with a first set of electronic devices participating during a first portion of the multiway call, the first secret being used to encrypt traffic between the first set of electronic devices. The first electronic device receives an indication that first set of participating electronic devices has changed and, in response to the indication, exchanges a second secret with a second set of electronic devices participating during a second portion of the multiway call, the second secret being used to encrypt traffic between the second set of participating electronic devices. In some embodiments, the indication identifies a second electronic device as leaving the multiway call, and the second secret is not exchanged with the second electronic device.

Secure multiway calling

A device implementing a system for multipath connection management may include first and second local communication interfaces, and a processor configured to establish a primary connection for communicating between the first local communication interface and a first remote communication interface of an other device, and a secondary connection for communicating between the second local communication interface and a second remote communication interface. The processor may be configured to transmit application and control data over the primary connection and concurrently transmit a copy of control data over the secondary connection. The processor may be configured to determine that a degradation of the quality of the primary connection is attributable to the other device. The processor may be configured to switch the secondary connection to the first local communication interface and the second remote communication interface. The processor may be configured to transmit a copy of the application and control data over the secondary connection.

Multi-path connection management

Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for generation and distribution of a stable identifier associated with multiple aliases of a user account. The stable identifier may be provided to various electronic devices by a server, responsive to requests associated with communications to those devices from one of the associated aliases. In this way, messaging applications can utilize the stable identifier to merge conversations from a single user having multiple aliases, and secure access to a secure device can be provided to an authorized user, even if the authorized user attempts access from an unauthorized account alias.

Conversation merging for electronic devices

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a device may obtain a link that corresponds to a call with a second device, encrypt a request to join the call using a key obtained using the link, and send the encrypted request to a server for delivery to the second device. The link may also include information used to identify an alias for an account associated with the second device. The device may send the encrypted request to the server with the alias. The device may receive an encrypted response to the request from the server, obtain an identifier of the call from the encrypted response, and then receive an invitation to join the call associated with the identifier.

Participant systems in an audiovisual (AV) conferencing can, in one embodiment, use methods to ensure that all participants have a common platform to support AV conferencing, such as a common codec, and also attempt to provide higher quality AV conferencing (e.g., better than the common codec) based on available bandwidth and other criteria. The participant systems can use the common codec as a fallback platform when bandwidth or other criteria dictate a reduction in the quality of the AV conferencing. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Optimizing media experience in conferencing with diverse participants

Implementations of the subject technology provide for storing a temporary certificate on a mobile device for accessing services in association with a primary number. A device determines that a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card, previously used by the device, is not available for use by the device. The device determines that a second SIM card is available for use by the first device within a predetermined time period after the first SIM card is determined to be not available for use by the device. The device confirms that a communication identifier of the first SIM card is strongly tied to a user account associated with the device. The device stores a temporary certificate that attests to continued ownership of the communication identifier by the device and allows the device to access at least one service in association with the communication identifier.

Maintaining access to services via SIM card

The present disclosure generally relates to synchronizing copies of a data object.

Group activity session synchronization

Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.

Switching between watches or other accessories

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Daniel Ben Pollack