Apple Inc.

Elliot T Garner

Daniel Ben Pollack

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

Jose A Lozano Hinojosa

Nelson M Leduc

Ryan W Baker

Andrew J Daley

Justin S Titi

Jared A Crawford

Frederic Jacobs

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

Alexis Allison Iskander

Jingyao Zhang

Sean Geiger

Ahmed M Bashir

Xudong Liu

Robert D Butler

Aniket A Zamwar

Jonathon Sodos

Justin R Etzine

Chieh Lu

David A Schaefgen

Huan He

Yevgeni Pekurovsky

Russel S Greer

Cisto Cyriac

Mursalin Akon

A device implementing a system for device-relationship based communication includes at least one processor configured to establish, by a first device associated with a first user, a secure communication channel with a second device associated with a second user via a direct wireless connection. The at least one processor is configured to transmit, over the secure communication channel, first device-identifying information to the second device, and receive, over the secure communication channel, second device-identifying information from the second device. The at least one processor is configured to establish a particular type of relationship with the second device, store the second device-identifying information in association with an indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device, and transmit, to the second device and over the secure communication channel, the indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device.

Device-relationship based communication

Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, an electronic device associated with an account can generate links, such as links for joining an electronic conferencing session. In some use cases, multiple electronic devices can be associated with the same account. Aspects of the subject technology provide for synchronization of links generated by multiple electronic devices associated with the same account.

Electronic conferencing

A push notification distribution system centralizes the management and delivery of push notifications to applications executing on electronic devices. Registration requests to register applications for push notifications may be aggregated and sent as an aggregated registration request. The delivery priority of push notifications may be managed according to specified preferences. Upon receiving a push notification intended for an electronic device, a delivery priority of the push notification may be changed if an application identifier associated with the push notification is found on a list of application identifiers with designed delivery priorities.

Push notification distribution system

Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.

Privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription systems

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Elliot T Garner