Apple Inc.

Siraj T Abidi

Patrick L Coffman

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Stephen J Rhee

Erik C Neuenschwander

Krishna M Behara

Matthew B Ball

Adam M Driscoll

Jessica Aranda

Christian Schroeder

Brandon J Van Ryswyk

Christopher C Foster

Charles D Deets

Maria Ryen

Shuli Zhou

A location control subsystem is provided that allows a user of an electronic device to define the granularity used to provide location coarseness. A user can define a coarse location granularity for an application. When a coarse device location is reported to an application, the location can be provided with at least a minimum degree of variable specificity based on the selected location coarseness. When an application is granted a coarse location, the application is to interpret the provided location indicating that the user may be anywhere within a geographic region of variable specificity, as opposed to being close to a center point with a horizontal accuracy based on the precision of the location fix, as when a fine granularity location is provided. In addition to reducing the spatial resolution of the location that is reported to the application, the temporal resolution may also be reduced.

User selectable location granularity

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Siraj T Abidi