Apple Inc.

Timothy Benjamin Martin

Christopher John Sanders

Jeffrey L Robbin

William Martin Bachman

Brian R Frick

Gregory Charles Lindley

Joshua Fagans

Joe Randall Howard

Matt Evans

David Heller

Jonathan Lochhead

Patrice Olivier Gautier

Gerhard Lengeling

Anne Jones

Ole Lagemann

Jan-Hinnerk Helms

John Danty

Alexander Soren

Stefan Pillhofer

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Thomas M Alsina

Nikhil M Bhatt

Sean Boland Kelly

Alan Cannistraro

Lucas Christopher Newman

Andrew M Wadycki

Greg Gilley

Simeon Leifer

Jeff Albouze

Benjamin Wojtyna

Imran A Chaudhri

Timothy E Wasko

Alexander Harry Little

Mike Wiese

Alan Ward

Robert H Kondrk

Eric Hanson

Jeff Robbin

Colin Meldrum

Fernando Augusto Teixeira Da Cunha Albuquerque

Corbett Myers Runyan

Patrick L Coffman

Imran Chaudhri, Iii

Peter K Wagner

Samir Gehani

David Lawrence Neumann

Alexandrea Anderson

Michael Neuman

Chris Bell

Christopher Laurence Bell

Charles Clinton Lloyd

Rachel Patricia Max

A method at a client device includes displaying media library information corresponding to a set of media items. The media items include one or more local media items, the one or more local media items including media items stored at the client device, and one or more remote media items, the one or more remote media items including media items stored at a remote system and not at the client device. The method also includes displaying, concurrently with displaying the media library information, affordances identifying the remote media items; detecting user interaction with an affordance identifying a respective remote media item; and in response to detecting the user interaction, initiating a process for downloading a copy of the respective remote media item to the client device for storage at the client device.

Management of local and remote media items

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for intelligently managing a playlist of digital media provide an intelligent dynamic queue that is configured to manage the playback of digital media. The queue can transition between passive playback mode, active playback mode, and mixed playback mode. The queue can handle the playback of the songs in the queue according to the playback mode and/or a queue status field that is associated with each song in the queue.

Intelligent media queue

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for resolving duplicate images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a single image from among a plurality of duplicate images. Each duplicate image has an associated set of metadata. The method also includes aggregating each set of metadata into aggregated information, and storing the selected image together with the aggregated information on data storage accessible to a data processing apparatus.

Consolidating information relating to duplicate images

Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication.

Electronic text manipulation and display

Playlists having media items from more than one source are described. Media items in a first library are mapped to media items from an online media item store. Media items within the playlist that can be found in the first library will be played from the first library, while media items not within the first library will be played from the online media store. By identifying media items present in both libraries and playing them only from the first library, the described method can reduce the royalties needing to be paid by the online media store. Further methods are disclosed for setting limits on the number of media items that can be shared by a second library.

Mixed source media playback

A method at a client device includes displaying media library information corresponding to a set of media items. The media items include one or more local media items stored at the client device, and one or more remote media items stored at a remote system and not at the client device. The method also includes displaying affordances identifying the remote media items and detecting user interaction with an affordance identifying a respective remote media item. The method also includes, in response to detecting the user interaction, initiating a process for downloading a copy of the respective remote media item to the client device for storage at the client device.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to automatic generation of dynamically changing layouts for a graphical user-interface. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure employ analysis of an image associated with the view (e.g., either the current view or a future view) of the graphical user-interface to determine colors that are complementary to the image. The colors are applied to the view, such that the color scheme of the view matches the image.

Automated graphical user-interface layout

This invention is directed to defining quick groups for easily associating keywords with an object (e.g., a media objection) accessible using an electronic device. The user of an electronic device may define several keywords that identify attributes of an object accessible using the electronic device. The user may associate keywords with an object to link the attribute of the keyword with the object (e.g., associate a keyword entitled 'vacation' to vacation pictures). The user may assign a shortcut key to each of a subset of the keywords, referred to as quick groups, by which the user may rapidly associate the keyword to an Object. In some embodiments, the electronic device may select the shortcut key of a quick group from the letters of the quick group to help the user remember the shortcut key.

User configurable quick groups

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Timothy Benjamin Martin