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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey L. Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);

Steve Jobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Timothy Wasko, High River, CA;

Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);

Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06F 17/30056 (2013.01); G06F 17/30755 (2013.01); G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 2240/061 (2013.01); G10H 2240/131 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface is provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in an automatic transition to a lower order user interface associated with the selected item. In one of the described embodiments, the lower order interface includes other user selectable items associated with the previously selected item from the higher order user interface.


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