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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael J. Giles, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig P. Dooley, Cupertino, CA (US);
Prateek Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay K. Verma, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Milpitas, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for coalescing alert notifications for applications and/or services to a primary user device of a set of multiple associated user devices within proximity of each other. When a user device is not in proximity to other associated user devices, the user device functions as a primary user device and provides alert notifications based on a default configuration and/or a user configurable setting. When the user device is within proximity of one or more other associated user devices, the user devices exchange relevant capability information and information for applications that are synchronized via network-based services. The user devices negotiate to determine a user device that serves as the primary user device to provide alert notifications for a set of applications and services common to a set of user devices. The other user devices are configured to reduce and/or suppress the alert notifications.