Apple Inc.

Jeremy A Wyld

Richard Williamson

Nitin Ganatra

Patrick L Coffman

Gregory N Christie

Gregory B Novick

Jeffrey Alan Bush

Henri C Lamiraux

John Joseph Iarocci

Darren S Litzinger

Imran A Chaudhri

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Marcel Van Os

Steve P Jobs

Bas Ording

Freddy Allen Anzures

Scott James Forstall

Wayne Carl Westerman

Michael James Matas

Kenneth L Kocienda

Scott M Herz

Paul D Marcos

Andre M J Boule

Chris Blumenberg

Charles John Pisula

Francisco Ryan Tolmasky

Steven P Jobs

Virgil Scott King

Scott M Marshall

Greg Christie

Jiten L Mehta

Wayne C Westerman

Scott Herz

Jeffrey Bush

Charles J Pisula

Kenneth Kocienda

Patrick Lee Coffman

Nitin K Ganatra

Gregory Novick

David Elias Fleischman

Brian H Cassidy

Andre Mj Boule

Dallas Blake De Atley

Jean-Marc Padova

Sebastien P Sahuc

Muralidhar S Vempaty

Bruno Posokhow

Audra Men-jhi Liu

Shruti Chugh

Ashutosh Chaubey

Heath Culp

John N Lehner

Jerrold Von Hauck

Justin N Wood

Andrew H Vyrros

Patrick G Gates

Justin Edward Santamaria

Jerry Hauck

Andre M Boule

Jared S Grubb

Dan Keen

Erik Strahm

Jonah Petri

John J Iarocci

Dallas De Atley

Lon Hardeman

Selva Subramaniam

Rakesh Singh

Sudipt Sinha

Josh Converse

John Lehner

Audra Men-Jhi Liu

Some techniques are described herein for coordinating device activity, with devices included in one or more different groups of devices. One technique includes coordinating activities among a group as coordinator. For example, in a group of devices, a coordinator device obtains a cluster list of activities from each member device in the group. The coordinator device establishes a new cluster list of activities based on each received cluster list of activities and sends the new cluster list to the member devices. Another technique includes coordinating changes of the coordinator role as a member. Another technique includes changing state of activities via an assertion system. Another technique includes selectively sending requests to change states of local activities. Yet another technique includes a distributed mechanism for selecting a primary device to interact with a user.

Techniques for coordinating device activity

Techniques are disclosed for selecting a leader device from a cluster of user devices. In one example, a user device determines a series of metrics specifying capabilities of the user device. The user device can obtain a number of user identifiers (UIDs) from other user devices in the cluster providing respective series of metrics specifying capabilities of the other user devices in the cluster. The user device can select a leader device based on a comparison of metrics for each user device as provided in the UIDs for the user devices. The user device can then notify the other user devices in the cluster of the selected leader device.

Techniques for electing a leader device in a network of user devices

Techniques are disclosed for generating device cluster capability information for a cluster of devices in a network environment. Capability information can specify capabilities of the devices in the cluster. A first user device can generate device capabilities for the first user device and obtain device capabilities for other devices in the cluster. The first user device can generate cluster capability information providing an intersection of the first set of device capabilities and device capabilities of the other user devices in the cluster. The first user device can obtain cluster capability information for other clusters in the network environment and receive a request from a service user device to perform a specific task. The first user device can transmit cluster capability information relating to a selected cluster that corresponds with the request.

Techniques for sharing device capabilities over a network of user devices

Techniques are disclosed for coordinating state information between devices in a network of devices. In one example, a first user device can obtain event information identifying an event (e.g., triggering of an alarm) associated with another user device and state information identifying a state of the other device. The first user device can report the state and event information to devices in the network. Observers corresponding to each user device can identify the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device. An action (e.g., output an audio chime) can be performed by each device with an observer that identifies the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device.

Techniques for reacting to device event state changes that are shared over a network of user devices

Network activity of a client device that is coupled to a data network is monitored, to detect network activity idle time. Based upon detecting the idle time, an application running in the client device is automatically signaled that its background task be executed over the data network. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Background task execution over a network

Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for providing telecommunications carrier configuration at activation of a mobile device. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a request for activation of a mobile device, and during activation of the mobile device, determining for the mobile device a telecommunications carrier from a number of telecommunications carriers, and identifying information associated with the determined telecommunications carrier for configuring the mobile device.

Postponed carrier configuration

A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.

Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for customizing display of content category icons

A method for dynamic network transport selection is described. An indication from a user of a client device is received, to fetch over a data network media of a predefined type. One of a number of network transport physical layers in the client device is automatically assigned, based on a number of stored, ranked media types and network transport physical layer types, for use in fetching the media over the data network. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Dynamic network transport selection

Daemon process determination of idle time of network activity at network interface

Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing or managing or using voicemails are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first data processing system, data representing an expiration time of a voicemail left for a user of the first data processing system and storing the data representing the expiration time for later use by the first data processing system. Systems, media, and other methods are also described.

Voicemail systems and methods

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Jeremy A Wyld