Apple Inc.

Luke Theodore Hiesterman

Mitchell David Adler

Per Love Hornquist Astrand

Keaton F Mowery

Benjamin I Williamson

Michelle A Auricchio

Dallas Blake De Atley

Max Muller

Joshua Matthew Williams

Andrew Dennis Boyko

Kenneth D Anderson

Some embodiments of the subject technology provide a novel system for synchronizing content items among a group of peer devices. The content synchronizing system of some embodiments includes the group of peer devices and a set of one or more synchronizing servers communicatively connected with the peer devices through one or more networks. In some embodiments, the synchronizing system uses a star architecture, in which each peer device offloads its synchronization operations to the synchronizing server set. Without establishing a peer-to-peer communication with any other peer device, the particular peer device in these embodiments supplies an encrypted content item set along with the N&#x2212;1 encryptions of a content key used to encrypt the content item set to the synchronizing server set so that this server set can distribute the encrypted content item set and an encrypted content key to each of the N&#x2212;1 peer devices.

Synchronizing content

Methods and systems are disclosed that allow automated qualification of a binary application program. A binary application program submitted from a developer can be automatically examined to determine whether the binary application program complies with rules or guidelines of a platform. If the binary application program complies with the rules or guidelines, the binary application program can be qualified, and can be distributed upon further approval. If the binary application program does not comply with the rules or guidelines, the application program can be rejected and a notification can be sent to the developer.

Automated qualification of a binary application program

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Luke Theodore Hiesterman