Apple Inc.

Zak C Wegweiser

Christopher M Garrido

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Karthick Santhanam

Padmavathy Bhooma

Gurtej Singh G Chandok

Xudong Liu

Jingyao Zhang

Justin R Etzine

Andrew J Daley

Yu Xing

Jad Osseiran

Sasanka T Vemuri

Wan-Ya Chen

Adam Y Syed

Sri Ranjan Srikantam

Robert B McIndoe

Sunil S Rao

Kevin C Tulod

Bradley D Ford

Robert B Mcindoe

Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to enable the automatic establishment of a secure audio/video data streaming connection between electronic devices. For example, a first electronic device may enter into a first state of a peer device advertising protocol, and then, based on a determination that the first electronic device meets a first set of device state criteria (e.g., including at least an orientation state criterion), the first electronic device may enter into a second (e.g., enhanced) state of the peer device advertising protocol. In response to detecting a presence of a second electronic device in its proximity, the first electronic device may connect to the second electronic device via a secure peer-to-peer connection protocol and then send one or more images captured by a first image capture device of the first electronic device to the connected second electronic device via the secure wireless peer-to-peer connection protocol.

Framework for automatically establishing secure connections for streaming audio and video data between devices based on device state criteria

A method is provided that includes receiving, at a media device and from a client device, a request for a temporary identifier for a group chat session, and provisioning, by the media device, the temporary identifier based on a device identifier of the media device. The media device provides the temporary identifier to the client device. The media device receives from a server an invitation to join the group chat session, where the invitation is directed to the temporary identifier, and the media device joins the group chat session.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Zak C Wegweiser