Apple Inc.

Tommy Rochette

Jonathan P Ive

Imran A Chaudhri

Alan C Dye

Scott Lopatin

Raghunandan K Pai

Scott Charles Grinker

Andreas Edgar Schobel

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Marcel Van Os

Christopher I Wilson

Christopher Patrick Foss

Chanaka G Karunamuni

David John Williams

Freddy Allen Anzures

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Wan Si Wan

Jonathan R Dascola

Nicholas V King

Craig Michael Federighi

William Martin Bachman

Yannick L Sierra

Gokul P Thirumalai

Robert William Mayor

Daniel Ben Pollack

Giancarlo Yerkes

Kenneth L Kocienda

Marcos Alonso Ruiz

Kevin M Lynch

Camille Moussette

Robert D Watson

Jae Woo Chang

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Behkish J Manzari

Henrique Dias Penha

Charles J Migos

Sriram Hariharan

Sebastian J Bauer

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Sorin V Dusan

Hoan K Pham

Brent Michael Ledvina

Daniel Trent Preston

Paul W Salzman

Jason D Rickwald

Nicole R Ryan

Julien F Freudiger

Lauren Kim Trottier

Gregory M Apodaca

Langford M Wasada

Kyle C Brogle

Siva Ganesh Movva

Emmanuel Lalande

Navin Bindiganavile Suparna

Robert Y Loh

Munish K Poonia

Sam Schaevitz

Lawrence T Lu

Grant Ritchie

Mithilesh Kumar

Aniket A Zamwar

Philomena F Lobo

Austin Marusco

Alexandre Perematko

Frank De Jong

Albert R Howard

Swadesh Bhattacharya

Michael C Laster

Swaminathan Jayaraman

Connor A Smith

Steven Andrew Myers

Shih-Sang Chiu

Allison M Styer

Samuel B Schaevitz

Thomas Chathoth Abraham

Rachel F Needle

Mayur P Mahajan

Aaron M Melim

Jesse Chand

Kaely Coon

Joseph P Cerra

Wesley M Holder

Daniel Emil Pu

Sophia Teutschler

Adam J Leonard

Adam M Driscoll

Michael T Jurewitz

Rupert Burton

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Christina Selle

Tunc Ertan

Mischa Mclachlan

Sarish Jain

Nicholas D Shourounis

Mads N Paulin

Rajat Bhardwaj

Olivier Gutknecht

Tim Taubert

Ernst Thomas Erdmann

Alexander CD Fringes

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

The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for electronic devices, including user interfaces for real-time communications.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for real-time communication

In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined.

Generating unexpected location notifications

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

The present disclosure generally relates to messaging user interfaces. The method includes displaying a messaging session between a user of the device and a respective participant in the message session other than the user of the device in a messaging user interface, wherein the respective participant is associated with a user account of the user. While the messaging session is active, the method also includes displaying, on the display, a first credential verification affordance in the messaging user interface. The method further includes detecting one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account. After detecting the one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account, in accordance with a determination that the authentication with the user account was successful, the method further includes providing an indication that the user was successfully authenticated with the user account to the respective participant via the messaging user interface.

Business messaging interface

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Tommy Rochette