Apple Inc.

Pablo P Cheng

Yasser Rihan

Courtland M Idstrom

Michael E Buerli

Joshua J Taylor

Igor L Gorelik

Naveen K Vemuri

Alvin L Lai

Application casting is provided, in which an application running on an electronic device is casted to another electronic device that does not have access to the application. The application is casted by providing sufficient information for rendering of a user interface of the application, at the device that does not have access to the application, with applied modifications such as user preferences for the device that does not have access to the application.

Application casting

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide authority transfer of a virtual object in a shared CGR environment. In some implementations, at a first electronic device associated with a first owner having authority to transmit state updates of a virtual object, a state update is transmitted to one or more peers participating in the shared CGR environment associated with the current state of the virtual object by the first electronic device. In some implementations, a handoff message is transmitted to indicate that ownership of the virtual object is being handed off. Then, an acquisition message transmitted by a second electronic device associated with a second owner indicates ownership acquisition of the virtual object by the second owner. The first electronic device accepts state updates of the virtual object transmitted from the second owner based on receiving the acquisition message.

Authority transfer for virtual objects in shared computer-generated reality environments

Techniques are disclosed relating to improving the reliable of a computing network. A first computing device receives changing states of a data object to send to a second computing device via a network interface. The first computing device sends, to the second computing device, a baseline packet having a complete one of the states of the data object. The first computing device sends, to the second computing device, a sequence of update packets corresponding to the changing states of the data object. An update packet in the sequence includes sufficient information to update a stored state of the data object at the second computing device to a current state of the data object responsive to the stored state being one of two or more previous ones of the states.

Communication system with improved reliability

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Chino Hills, CA, United States of America

Pablo P Cheng