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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Maximilian H. Luttrell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brendan J. Langoulant, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vera Carr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2018.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G01C 21/3679 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A location-aware device detects if a personal or point of interest region has been entered or exited and a current context of the device. In response, an operating mode is selected based on the region and a current context of the device. The operating mode is configurable by a user, including setting geofence parameters, context parameters and operating mode parameters.