Apple Inc.

James David Batson

Roger N Pantos

Gregory R Chapman

William B May, Jr

David L Biderman

Alan Tseng

John Samuel Bushell

Patrick L Coffman

Aram M Lindahl

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Andrew E Rostaing

Meriko Borogove

Ralph T Brunner

Nikhil Bhogal

Sean Michael Callahan

Peter Hoddie

Christopher L Flick

George E Williams

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Hsi-Jung Wu

Yeping Su

Xiaosong Zhou

Gregory B Novick

Chris Yoochang Chung

J Peter Hoddie

James Alexander Howard

Douglas Scott Price

Eric Olaf Carlson

John Y Su

Eric S Lee

Walker J Eagleston

Zhenheng Li

Hugh W Johnson

Jeremy Spencer Jones

Cary Clark

James C Dovey

Ernie Beernink

David Fung

Art Cabral

Michael Potel

Thomas M Alsina

Eric M Hoffert

Gavin Stuart Peter Miller

Nicholas James Paulson

Anil K Kandangath

Arvind S Shenoy

Sean Matthew Gies

Szu-Wen Huang

Tim Cherna

Simon Goldrei

Jamie P Carlson

Simon Ezriel Chaim Goldrei

Jangwon Lee

Ramy R Asselin

Stephanie L Legault

Abdul Rahman Al-shawa

Fabien Goncalves

John A Wilkey

William Jr May

William May

David Biderman

Roger Pantos

The present disclosure generally relates to methods for sending event notifications. In some examples, a controller periodically sends messages concerning a status of an event corresponding to the controller. In some examples, at a first time while periodically sending the messages and in accordance with a determination that the status of the event has changed, the controller sends a message concerning data other than the status of the event. In some examples, at the first time while periodically sending the messages and in accordance with a determination that the status of the event has not changed, the controller continues to periodically send the messages without sending the message concerning data other than the status of the event.

Event reporting

Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a live video broadcast), into a plurality of distinct media files, and generating a playlist file having a plurality of tags and Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an order of presentation of the plurality of distinct media files. The plurality of media files and the playlist file can be made available for transmission to a client device which can retrieve the media files using the playlist file.

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Methods and apparatuses provide real-time or near real-time streaming of content, specified in one or more playlists, using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method can execute a user application on a client device to present media files and to control presentation of the media files. The method can further run a media serving process on the client device to retrieve a playlist specifying the media files and a media source at which the media files are available, to retrieve the media files from the media source, and to decode the media files retrieved. The media serving process can call the user application to process a custom URL in order to obtain an object referred to by the custom URL.

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Methods, devices, and systems for continuous image capturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes continuously capturing a sequence of images with an image capturing device. The method may further include storing a predetermined number of the sequence of images in a buffer. The method may further include receiving a user request to capture an image. In response to the user request, the method may further include automatically selecting one of the buffered images based on an exposure time of one of the buffered images. The sequence of images is captured prior to or concurrently with receiving the user request.

Image capturing device having continuous image capture

A method and apparatus for intelligently routing and managing audio signals within an electronic device is disclosed. The routing is responsive to a set of logical and physical policies which are stored in data tables which can be updated as needed.

Data-driven media management within an electronic device

Users can share a content stream and can create and/or edit playlists that include content items of the content stream. Each user device, or a subset of the user devices, can edit the playback commands of the content stream once it is being shared. Playback of the content items is synchronized between the sharing devices. If one device is associated with a content restriction, an alternate version may be provided to that device. The two versions can still be played synchronously with one another.

Synchronized playback of alternate content version

System and methods for improved playback of a video stream are presented. Video snippets are identified that include a number of consecutive frames for playback. Snippets may be evenly temporally spaced in the video stream or may be content adaptive. Then the first frame of a snippet may be selected as the first frame of a scene or other appropriate stopping point. Scene detection, object detection, motion detection, video metadata, or other information generated during encoding or decoding of the video stream may aid in appropriate snippet selection.

Trick play in digital video streaming

Systems and methods for transitioning between media assets are described. In the described techniques, a client device may receive and render a first plurality of coded segments corresponding to a first media asset. Subsequently, while rendering the first media asset, the client device may receive a second plurality of coded segments corresponding to a second media asset. In order to transition between the media assets, a starting point for the rendering of the second media asset is determined.

Item to item transitions

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to control a camera from a wearable mechanism device, such as a watch, pendant or other device with its own limited display. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a wearable mechanism device for remotely controlling a camera with an intuitive user interface and sequencing of interface options. In one embodiment, the display on the wearable mechanism changes before a picture or video is taken with the electronic camera. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to partially control a camera from the wearable mechanism device, providing split control.

Changing display images of a camera timer remote control

Methods, systems and machine readable storage medium for allowing playback of streaming media at playback rates of other than 1&#xd7; are described. In one embodiment, a method can determine different sets of I-frames that are available before a display deadline, where each set can have a different cadence, and one of the sets can be selected for download and display to achieve playback at other than 1&#xd7;. Byte range requests from a client device can be used to retrieve each of the I-frames. Other methods, system and media are also described.

Camera remote control

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James David Batson