Apple Inc.

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Daniel Ben Pollack

Pierre Jonathan De Filippis

Yan Yang

Gregory B Novick

Craig P Dooley

Aroon Pahwa

Tyler D Hawkins

David T Wilson

Todd Allan Shortlidge

James C Grandy

David C Donley

Julien A Poumailloux

Roberto Garcia

Nelson M Leduc

Bhaskar P Sarma

Aniket A Zamwar

Kevin J Lindeman

Jose A Lozano Hinojosa

Andrew J Daley

Patrick Robert Burns

Xudong Liu

Robert D Butler

Ryan A Williams

Elliot T Garner

Liang Qu

Justin N Wood

Gokul P Thirumalai

Scott Lopatin

Tommy Rochette

Grant Ritchie

Robert Y Loh

Mithilesh Kumar

Ryan W Baker

Austin Marusco

Alexandre Perematko

Huan He

Patrick L Coffman

Joe S Abuan

Berkat S Tung

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

Vitalii Kramar

Albert Riley Howard

Lauren Elise Tappana

Kenneth A York

Jin Hyung Park

Adam J Moore

Christopher Ku

Srinivasan Nimmala

Kevin M Lynch

Bob Bradley

Yannick L Sierra

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Ajoy K Singh

Rohan C Malthankar

Robert D Watson

Christopher M Garrido

Justin S Titi

Andreas Edgar Schobel

Ivan Krstic

Faraz Faheem

Luciano Miguel Verger

Thomas P Devanneaux

Damien Pascal Sorresso

Gregory Robert Burns

Matthew C Lucas

Ian J Baird

Sergey Sitnikov

Lucia Elena Ballard

Ariane Cotte

Jared A Crawford

Gobind Johar

Frederic Jacobs

Christopher Paul Saari

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

David P Remahl

Alexis Allison Iskander

Philomena F Lobo

Justin R Etzine

Thomas Chathoth Abraham

Thuy Park

Guozhi Huang

Adam Y Syed

Sean Geiger

Jingyao Zhang

Ahmed M Bashir

Alejandro A Rodriguez

Jonathon Sodos

David S Evans

Jad Osseiran

Lilynaz Hashemi

Chieh Lu

David A Schaefgen

Justin S Hogg

Patrick R Metcalfe

Vibhor Goyal

Elliot C Liskin

Wan-Ya Chen

Zak C Wegweiser

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.

Electronic conferencing

A device implementing a system for providing information corresponding to a user in association with messaging includes a processor configured to receive, by a messaging application on the device, a message and associated metadata from a second device, the associated metadata comprising a record identifier of a data record stored on a server, the data record comprising identifying information corresponding to a user of the second device. The processor is further configured to send, to the server, a request for the data record, the request comprising the record identifier, and obtain, in response to the sending, the data record. The processor is further configured to display the identifying information of the user contained in the data record, together with content of the message in a user interface of the messaging application.

Providing user information in association with messaging

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.

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.

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

The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for application-specific network data filtering. Application-specific network data filtering may be performed by a sandboxed process prior to providing the network data to an application to which the network data is directed. Any malicious or otherwise potentially harmful data that is included in the network data may be removed by the application-specific network data filter or may be allowed to corrupt the application specific network data filtering operations within the sandbox, thereby preventing the malicious or harmful data from affecting the application or other portions of an electronic device. In one or more implementations, a first process such as an application-specific network data filtering process may request allocation of memory for the first process from second process, such as an application, that is separate from a memory manager of the electronic device.

Application specific network data filtering

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

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

Techniques are disclosed for transmitting a message to a user device in accordance with a determination that another device is unreachable over a network. In one example, a server device, at a first location, may identify a controller device resident at a second location, whereby the controller device is configured to communicate with a router at the second location. The server device may also receive a list of user devices. The server device may transmit a ping message to the controller device via the router to determine whether the controller device is unreachable by the server device. The server device may subsequently transmit a message to a user device on the list in accordance with a determination that the controller device is unreachable by the server device, whereby the message includes instructions for the user device to determine whether the controller device is unreachable by the user device.

Identifying reachability of network-connected devices

A method is provided that includes receiving, at a media device and from a client device, a request for a temporary identifier for a group chat session, and provisioning, by the media device, the temporary identifier based on a device identifier of the media device. The media device provides the temporary identifier to the client device. The media device receives from a server an invitation to join the group chat session, where the invitation is directed to the temporary identifier, and the media device joins the group chat session.

Lightweight chat session participant

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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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Nicholas Joseph Circosta