Apple Inc.

Scott Lopatin

Jonathan P Ive

Imran A Chaudhri

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Richard R Dellinger

Marcel Van Os

Christopher I Wilson

Christopher Patrick Foss

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Freddy Allen Anzures

Wan Si Wan

Jonathan R Dascola

Nicholas V King

Craig Michael Federighi

William Martin Bachman

Giancarlo Yerkes

Robert William Mayor

Kenneth L Kocienda

Marcos Alonso Ruiz

Camille Moussette

Justin N Wood

Robert D Watson

Jae Woo Chang

Bradford Allen Moore

Behkish J Manzari

Henrique Dias Penha

Charles J Migos

Yannick L Sierra

Gokul P Thirumalai

Daniel Ben Pollack

Scott Charles Grinker

Sriram Hariharan

Sebastian J Bauer

Roberto Garcia

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Karthik Narayanan

Hoan K Pham

Brent Michael Ledvina

Daniel Trent Preston

Sorin V Dusan

Woo-Ram Lee

Nicole R Ryan

Julien F Freudiger

Lauren Kim Trottier

Gregory M Apodaca

Tommy Rochette

Navin Bindiganavile Suparna

Raghunandan K Pai

Siva Ganesh Movva

Emmanuel Lalande

Robert Y Loh

Langford M Wasada

Grant Ritchie

Aaron M Melim

Kyle C Brogle

Eugene M Bistolas

Allison M Styer

Munish K Poonia

Steven Andrew Myers

Samuel B Schaevitz

Mithilesh Kumar

Daniel Emil Pu

Sophia Teutschler

Adam M Driscoll

Adam J Leonard

Sam Schaevitz

Lawrence T Lu

Aniket A Zamwar

Austin Marusco

Philomena F Lobo

Michael T Jurewitz

Tunc Ertan

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Christina Selle

Alexandre Perematko

Mayur P Mahajan

Michael C Laster

Sarish Jain

Swadesh Bhattacharya

Ernst Thomas Erdmann, Iv

Nicholas D Shourounis

Mischa Mclachlan

Aashish Patil

Mads N Paulin

Olivier Gutknecht

Tim Taubert

Ernst Thomas Erdmann

Alexander CD Fringes

Mohammed N Jiswari

Peter J Hajas

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

System and method for locating wireless accessories

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations to share a set of keys used to communicate with a wireless accessory device. By sharing the set of keys, functionality of the wireless accessory device can be delegated by an owner to other individuals.

Sharing keys for a wireless accessory

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations comprising establishing a wireless connection with a beacon peripheral, monitoring a connection state of the wireless connection, in response to detecting a loss of connection with the beacon peripheral, posting a separation notification for the beacon peripheral to a notification framework of the electronic device, deferring display of the notification during a reconnect interval, attempting to reconnect with the beacon peripheral during the reconnect interval, and displaying the separation notification via a user interface in response to a failure to reconnect with the beacon peripheral.

Separation notifications for wireless accessories

Techniques for live location sharing are described. A first mobile device and a second mobile device can communicate with one another using an IM program. The first mobile device can receive a user input to share a location of the first mobile device in the IM program. Sharing the location can include causing the second mobile device to display a location of the first mobile device in an IM program user interface on the second mobile device. Duration of sharing the location can be user-configurable. The second mobile device may or may not share a location of the second device for display in the IM program executing on the first mobile device.

Live location sharing

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing credentials of multiple users on an electronic device are provided.

Managing credentials of multiple users on an electronic device

A device implementing end-to-end encryption for location sharing may include at least one processor configured to generate a public-private keypair. The at least one processor may be further configured to encrypt, using a first key of the public-private keypair, location data corresponding to a location of the electronic device. The at least one processor may be further configured to transmit, to a server, the encrypted location data for storage. The at least one processor may be further configured to transmit, via a secure communication channel, a second key of the public-private keypair to another electronic device for subsequent retrieval of the encrypted location data by the other electronic device.

End-to-end encryption for location sharing

Techniques disclosed herein relate to the authentication of a first user in a communication session between the first user using a user device and a second user using a remote computer system. The computer system sends an authentication request in the session, and the user device receives the authentication request in the session via a messaging program. The user device then causes a different program to access an authentication token received from an authentication computer system. The user device sends an indication of the authentication token to the remote computer system which the remote computer system verifies to authenticate the first user within the session.

Authenticating a messaging program session

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to enable the secure streaming of real-time location data between electronic devices. One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to perform operations comprising creating record to specify a location streaming relationship between a first device registered with a first user account and a second device registered with a second online account, the record including a secret key. The record is stored to an online datastore and shared between the first user account and the second online account. The location data stream can be encrypted using the secret key stored in the record.

Secure streaming of real-time location data between electronic devices

A messaging system, in one embodiment, can establish messaging accounts for a plurality of organizations (e.g., businesses) to allow customers or users of the organizations to conduct two-way messaging sessions between a customer and an organization. The messaging system can use a registration portal to allow an organization to set up a business/organization messaging account by providing account information. The account information can then be used to update one or more searchable databases that allow a customer to have multiple entry points into a messaging session with each of the registered businesses in the messaging system. For example, a search through a web browser or a map application can provide search results that contain or otherwise provide access to a selectable messaging option that is presented on a customer's device.

Messaging system for organizations

Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for location-tracking wireless devices. In an embodiment, a method performed by an electronic device comprises: playing, or initiating the playing of, a sound through a loudspeaker of an accessory device via a communication link. The sound is played at a specified frequency that utilizes a frequency response of the loudspeaker (or loudspeaker plus speaker enclosure). The sound is received through two or more microphones of the electronic device and filtered by one or more filters. The one or more filters are configured to pass the sound at or around the specified frequency and to reduce masking of the sound by ambient noise. The filtered sound is associated with direction data generated from sensor data provided by one or more inertial sensors of the electronic device. In another embodiment, the specified frequency is higher than the maximum human hearing range.

Locating wireless devices

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Scott Lopatin